Pasting from Word?

  • Hi — I’m new to this, thanks for the help.

    I have a simple question, but one I can’t seem to find anywhere. If I want to edit text in microsoft word, and then paste it into wordpress, is there a way to do so that preserves the hyperlinks? (There is group editing going on, and the group prefers to do it in word — redoing the hyperlinks at the end is painful).

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  • I’d stay away from Word for any kind of web posting. If you’ve ever looked at the HTML that Word generates, it is about as far from clean as you can get. If you want to use an offline editor, wbloggar and Zempt are two pretty good ones. Another option is to use the XinHa WordPress plugin; it is much more complete than the tinyMCE that is built into WordPress.

    “if I put it in with no formatting, then I will need to enter the hyperlinks?”

    Maybe you should consider another approach: Install the fantastic Markdown plugin for WP, invest around 10 minutes to learn its syntax and just use plain vanilla text in your posts.

    There is no reason why people have to use something as inappropriate as Word, all computers and workstations have at least one text editor, irrespective of which OS they’re on.

    As Handy says in his post on PureText, and as Bill suggests above, Word produces absolute rubbish HTML and Microsoft should be ashamed of it.

    i think i’ve got it sorted with a few javascript regular expressions.
    this thread is getting to be a great resource collection though…

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