Pasting Microsft Word into Pages and Posts

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In Wordpress there is an option to put Microsoft Word into pages and posts (under Kitchen Sink), it has a W on the icon to paste MW pre-written pages. The problem is that it does not keep the format. The spacing does not stay after pasting in WP pages It has no spacing between sentences even if that is how you wrote it in MW. Am I missing an action or do I need to rewrite the page in Wordpress? I know that there is a html action that will make the spacing I want but that does not stick. It will go back to no spacing and having to put the html code in over and over simply does not work for me. What is the best action to solve this problem?
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    • The point of the kitchen sink / Word import is that it strips out all the junk code that Microsoft puts in word documents. If you copy/paste word right into the WYSIWYG editor, you'll get a really messed up page.

      Long story short, it's just there to help you get the content into the Wordpress page quickly, but then you'll have to reformat it.
  • Paste from word rarely works as you would like it to... Honestly, it's best to just paste as plain text and reformat within wordpress. This means you can use the styles in your css and leads to consistency across your site.
  • What I often do is, I'll copy/paste the entire document from Word into Notepad. I'll then paste into Wordpress. If the formatting looks funky, then I'll delete out of Wordpress, and make sure inside Notepad I select Format >> Word Wrap. I usually select it once, then again (if I remember correctly).

    Now, even if that formats the paragraphs correctly, you have to watch out for double-quotes " " and single quotes ' ' because those from Word do not translate well.
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    • I used to do that, but boy does that become cumbersome after a while. The same thing as pasting to notepad can be accomplished by using PureText. Just install it, and whenever you want to paste text from Word without the formatting, just do a Windows+V instead of the usual CTRL+V to paste. This tool really has been a time saver for me.
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  • ^^This.

    More recently, I just type in Wordpress (full screen) from scratch. Saves the hassle of copying/pasting/reformatting.
  • Nice tip mojojuju!
  • Thank you mojojuju, really good point !
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    • Thank you all. I apreciate the response. I will probably just put it in the WP directly from here on out.
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  • In what mode did you write it, visual or html ?
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    • Toggle fullscreen mode, under Visual.
  • Send a link to your site..
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    • What do you mean? Send a link back from a forum to see if it formated correctly on my website? or send you my link so you can see it? Right now I have yet to get my site indexed.
  • Yeah, send/post a link that we can see it for ourselves.
    (What do you mean it has to be indexed? You think it is not visible becuuse of not being indexed? Then how can YOU see it? )
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    • This is how it shows up on my "view page"
  • 1. Never give a link to a webpage that is inside your admin panel because nobody can see it (only you because you ARE logged in)

    What is that "Toggle fullpage" which I have never used and still am a happy wordpresser...?

    2. There is NO formatting in your source code - so you are doing something wrong when writing the content in your wp-admin Write subpanel.



    FYI: If you use WP normally then while writing a post for every Enter it inserts <p> and </p> around the text while in the ugly Visual animal.

    When in the normal html mode:
    1xEnter = line break (br)
    2xEnter = paragraph (p)
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    • Actually here is exactly what you need to do, I even just took the time to test this and it works perfectly.
      • Copy your text in word using regular "Copy" like Control-C
      • The workaround for this is to first paste that into "WordPad"
      • then copy it again and paste that into Wordpress and just bypass the tool you mentioned.
      This approach removes most of the formatting while keeping some of the essential formatting like Bold, Italics, Links, etc.

      You have to use Microsoft Wordpad prior to Windows 7, such as on XP it is great. The version of Wordpress after Windows 7 I did not test.

      What happens is that Microsoft is much better at interpreting and simplifying its own code.

      I would take whatever is in Wordpad and then just paste it into your WP WYSIWYG and then format it.

      Finally, if you want to use a "local client" program (like Word) on your own computer to save the files, I can understand why you would want to do that. But for Wordpress purposes, don't use Word, use "Wordpad" because it has everything you need and you can smoothly cut and paste into Wordpress.

      David Lieder
      Astral Universe Worldwide Media
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    Pasting Microsft Word into Pages and Posts

    In Wordpress there is an option to put Microsoft Word into pages and posts (under Kitchen Sink), it has a W on the icon to paste MW pre-written pages. The problem is that it does not keep the format. The spacing does not stay after pasting in WP pages It has no spacing between sentences even if that is how you wrote it in MW. Am I missing an action or do I need to rewrite the page in Wordpress? I know that there is a html action that will make the spacing I want but that does not stick. It will go back to no spacing and having to put the html code in over and over simply does not work for me. What is the best action to solve this problem?