[DUG-TO] cut/paste from word processors?

[Denis Grey]

Hello Evan,

The standard editors include a "Paste from Word" button which cleans up the Microsoft formatting while retaining basic formatting (bullets, bold, underline, etc.). You can train your community to use this button but unfortunately it is not default behaviour.

With Office 2007 the "Paste from Word" function no longer works very well. Hopefully the FCKeditor and TinyMCE folks will catch up to that.

Best,

Denis Grey

On Fri, 29 May 2009 10:17 -0400, "Evan Leibovitch" <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've found that Drupal's easy-to-use text editors not at all useful if
> someone wants to cut and paste already-formatted material from a word
> processor or other PC software. The cut-paste works fine within the
> editor itself, but not with stuff coming from other apps.
> 
> I've tried this with TinyMCE, FCKEditor and jWYSIWYG, which all mangle
> incoming bullets and other formatting.
> 
> The problem has been noted at http://drupal.org/node/309828 without any
> real resolution.
> 
> What's the best way to copy-paste from Word without losing the
> formatting? Any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> - Evan
> 
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