[thelist] pasted ms-word cruft in my RTE
patrick
pms at stoutstreet.com
Mon Jun 18 17:35:52 CDT 2007
sbeam wrote:
> those of you that use contentEditable widgets like TinyMCE and friends
> for maintaining site content - do you have the same problem with text
> pasted in from MS Word, namely the unspeakable ugliness, invalidity,
> tendency to completely muck up an entire page, gross depravity, putting
> funny smells on the upholstery, etc etc etc....
>
> We have been telling folks to "first paste the text into Notepad, then
> paste again into the RTE, then add your formatting as needed". But then
> you have to listen to the groans of discontent (and usually explain
> what Notepad is). Even bits copied from other sites carries in the HTML
> and CSS from the other site - not real useful. Is there a Better Way
> (TM)?
>
> Sam
Is there a Word option to save as plain text? Then they can re-open in
Word and copy/paste?
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