Pasting Text from Word

Pasting Text from Word

When you cut and paste text directly from MS Word or similar programs it normally carries a lot of excess formatting with it. Some of that formatting may have side effects further down the page in some browsers. You may see that your paragraphs aren't right or that it has incorrectly added line breaks instead of separating into paragraphs or that it doesn't use codes for special characters such as quotation marks and they don't look right.

To correctly paste text into a page use the 'paste as plain text' button . This will strip out all of the excess baggage. There is also a Paste from Word button which may leave some of your formatting intact, but still remove the "baggage".