When you copy and paste into Wordpress; it's not only the text that gets copied. Formatting and other stuff can come over via your clipboard and the weird stuff is probably wordpress trying to render it.

I usually copy'n'paste into a (proper) text program (Notepad++) then copy and paste THAT into WP...removes the formatting and gives me 'clean' text.

Of course, sometimes you can copy'n'paste straight from Word (or whatever) and the formatting gives you exactly the look you were after. Problem is; there can be some formatty bits floating about that may cause you some problems later.

Well it does have a crappy editor, among other things.

What I do is get my post 'close' in visual mode. At some point I switch to HTML mode. After I switch modes I do not ever edit in visual mode again. It's visual mode editor that re-writes things to it's own liking.

Try it out.

Joe Mobley

I use notepad or notepad++ so no rtf (rich text formatting) gets copied over. WordPress 3.1 has a few little bugs (it's been updated today) but install the hotfix wordpress plugin and keep it updated to fix any little glitches before WP itself updates.

It's not WP. It's the user...

Don't copy ever from Wordpad or MS Word or any other word processor! It's that simple.

Like Istvan I write straight into WP. I usually used the visual editor and only switch to html when adding scripts and such. Once I've done that I try not to use the visual editor again as it can play around with the way things look.

I've been using WP for years and I love it.

You can copy directly from MS Word (or other word formatting processors), however, in order to avoid strange formatting you should paste your text into "HTML" and not "Visual" editor inside Wordpress.

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agree with Istvan

As usual, people complaint about the car, not the way they drive. As stated you need to post in WP without text formatting, otherwise you'll copy all the things you don't want to.

In a couple days/weeks you'll laugh about this and enjoy more of your WP experience, trust me.

Hi Carp,

Boy, I've been through the same challenges, too. It is so frustrating attempting to get WP editor to do things simply and cleanly . . . and even worse if you want to copy from another wordprocessor or editor.

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If I've wanted to paste something into wordpress I've generally pasted it into Komposer and then on into wordpress

try using just the html editor full time, its not difficult to read the code once you get used to it, plus it allows you to have much better control over the end result.

no its not a dumb question, that's the kind of questions I have been asking about wordpress.
Mine will not let me add URL when I click on to insert image, it reverts to error page.. and I am with blue host.com
crap you keep hanging in there with your wordpress blog.

I thought I was the only one going bonkers over the changing fonts. What I did to fix it was just copy into the html editor. All fonts look the same now. I edit the font style in the style.css file

I personally think the easiest method to use is to click on the "Paste as Plain Text" button (open the kitchen sink if you don't see it).

Then there is no need to use an intermediate editor like notepad or similar.