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How to paste an article from word to Wordpress without loosing formatting?

by morg2k2
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Hi Guys,

I have written a few dozen of articles well formatted in microsoft Word and was trying to paste it to Wordpress but lost all the formatting.

There is any way to paste the articles without loosing all the formatting?

I tried out and but did not find any easy solution.

Any thoughts?

thanks,
Morg
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_Custer
    See if this article will help you you:

    How to start blogging using Microsoft Word with WordPress or Blogger
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Originally Posted by morg2k2 View Post

    Hi Guys,

    I have written a few dozen of articles well formatted in microsoft Word and was trying to paste it to Wordpress but lost all the formatting.

    There is any way to paste the articles without loosing all the formatting?

    I tried out and but did not find any easy solution.

    Any thoughts?

    thanks,
    Morg
    because there is code with word documents. You need to paste into notepad then into wp and then reformat.

    Also in your post editor there is a button to "Paste as Text" I am not sure how it works as I usually do not paste from word. But if you turn it off it supposedly helps with pasting a word document

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    • Profile picture of the author morg2k2
      Originally Posted by agmccall View Post

      because there is code with word documents. You need to paste into notepad then into wp and then reformat.

      Also in your post editor there is a button to "Paste as Text" I am not sure how it works as I usually do not paste from word. But if you turn it off it supposedly helps with pasting a word document

      al
      That option is too bad
      because all the articles have lots of formatting (text, graphics, colors, etc)
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  • Profile picture of the author mlangille
    This may be what you need, works for me. https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how...ordpress-site/
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    • Profile picture of the author morg2k2
      Unfortunately the blog Post in Microsoft Word for mac 2011 and even 2016 version is not available

      Microsoft shoot me again

      is annoying.

      Thanks for all the help.

      Morg
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  • Profile picture of the author Luke Dennison
    Good question as I'm needing an answer my self.

    The best thing I have found is to just create the post in WordPress to begin with, but I understand that is not an answer to your question

    It sucks because I prefer to write posts in Google Docs as I tend to work better that way
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris_Custer
      Originally Posted by Luke Dennison View Post

      Good question as I'm needing an answer my self.

      The best thing I have found is to just create the post in WordPress to begin with, but I understand that is not an answer to your question

      It sucks because I prefer to write posts in Google Docs as I tend to work better that way
      I just found this Chrome plugin. I'm going to give it a try, but it might help you out, Luke.

      https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...eppiikll?hl=en
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      • Profile picture of the author rhinocl
        Most Word formatting will transfer over to WordPress and look OK IF you paste it into the Visual editor side (if you don't see that side you can enable it in your user profile.
        I'm not saying the code will be as clean or as good as if you strip out all the tags and rebuild it in the WordPress editor or write it by hand, but it will usually work and look good. Interrupted Ordered Lists will need their start numbers reverted to 1.
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        • Profile picture of the author Steve B
          Have you tried saving your document from WORD as an html file or web page? At least some of the coding should be saved with the post so it can be transferred over to WP.

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          • Profile picture of the author morg2k2
            Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

            Have you tried saving your document from WORD as an html file or web page? At least some of the coding should be saved with the post so it can be transferred over to WP.

            Steve
            Hi Steve,

            I did not tried it yet, but will take a shot and see how it goes.

            thanks,
            Morg
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      • Profile picture of the author Luke Dennison
        Originally Posted by Chris_Custer View Post

        I just found this Chrome plugin. I'm going to give it a try, but it might help you out, Luke.

        https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...eppiikll?hl=en
        Cheers mate, good find that!
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  • Profile picture of the author RJKushner
    Originally Posted by morg2k2 View Post

    Hi Guys,

    I have written a few dozen of articles well formatted in microsoft Word and was trying to paste it to Wordpress but lost all the formatting.

    There is any way to paste the articles without loosing all the formatting?

    I tried out and but did not find any easy solution.

    Any thoughts?

    thanks,
    Morg
    You might want to try this:
    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/...the-formatting

    If that doesn't work you might want to see if installing the WP Edit plugin and then creating your posts in WP itself works out better for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author morg2k2
      Originally Posted by RJKushner View Post

      You might want to try this:
      https://wordpress.org/support/topic/...the-formatting

      If that doesn't work you might want to see if installing the WP Edit plugin and then creating your posts in WP itself works out better for you.
      While i don´t find a way to accommodate my pretensions i started to follow your tip

      thanks,
      Morg
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  • Profile picture of the author getfreetheme
    I haven't used any plugin with this capabilities, but I think there are plugins like that.

    Here's what I can give, an advise: when creating a content, it is more easy to have it edited on WordPress directly, via a builder is better. That way, you can make the visualizations and the proper arrangements of the content that you desired.

    I have experienced this problem like yours before when I transferred a set of articles from GDocs to Wordpress, so I can feel what you are feeling right now.
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    • Profile picture of the author morg2k2
      Originally Posted by getfreetheme View Post

      I haven't used any plugin with this capabilities, but I think there are plugins like that.

      Here's what I can give, an advise: when creating a content, it is more easy to have it edited on WordPress directly, via a builder is better. That way, you can make the visualizations and the proper arrangements of the content that you desired.

      I have experienced this problem like yours before when I transferred a set of articles from GDocs to Wordpress, so I can feel what you are feeling right now.
      Thanks for your feedback.

      Sincerely i was not expecting Wordpress to have this behaviour i was really expecting something more straightforward.

      But from now i will start doing directly from the page Wordpress page builder.

      Thanks,
      Morg
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  • Profile picture of the author EpicContentGuy
    Here's what I do:

    1. Write in Google Docs (copy/pastes into WordPress with formatting really well)
    2.Upload/open Word files in Google Docs, use the formatting features in Google Docs, then copy/paste to WordPress
    3. Write in WordPress directly (although I've sometimes lost posts this way if the page crashed)

    I'd advise not working in Word. Google Docs has really improved its game this year, and it's my editor of choice for web work.
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    • Profile picture of the author morg2k2
      Originally Posted by EpicContentGuy View Post

      Here's what I do:

      1. Write in Google Docs (copy/pastes into WordPress with formatting really well)
      2.Upload/open Word files in Google Docs, use the formatting features in Google Docs, then copy/paste to WordPress
      3. Write in WordPress directly (although I've sometimes lost posts this way if the page crashed)

      I'd advise not working in Word. Google Docs has really improved its game this year, and it's my editor of choice for web work.
      Thanks,

      I tried copying from Word to google Docs and then paste to Wordpress but all the text formatting was lost. I think i will copy to Wordpress and the re-format the content. Then will start writing directly in WP.

      Thanks,
      Morg
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Instead of using Notepad, try Wordpad.
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  • Profile picture of the author HCFGrizzly
    Have you tried saving the document from Word as an html File?
    Also, there are some plugins out there that help.
    Here is an extensive discussion here:
    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/...ves-formatting
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficFlow
    Here is an article I found on this exact issue:

    How To Paste An Article From MS Word To Wordpress Without Losing Formatting
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    • Profile picture of the author SFNY
      The easiest way to maintain your formatting is to paste the content into the html area of the post.

      Click on write post and within the post click on html. Paste the content there.
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  • Profile picture of the author spa3212
    I personally use plugmatter wordpress plugin, that works great for me. It is better than copying and pasting..
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