[thelist] pasted ms-word cruft in my RTE

[patrick]

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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patrick sanders
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