Codeistry blog » wordpress http://codeistry.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:59:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Pasting from Microsoft Word into WordPress or MODx http://codeistry.com/blog/2009/02/pasting-from-microsoft-word-into-wordpress-or-modx/ http://codeistry.com/blog/2009/02/pasting-from-microsoft-word-into-wordpress-or-modx/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:31:16 +0000 Duncan Lock http://www.codeistry.com/blog/?p=241 I’ve put a new article up in the Codeistry Help section which covers troubleshooting and fixing issues you get copying & pasting code into WordPress, MODx or other web based systems from Microsoft Word. Just in case anyone else gets caught out by this, here’s the deal:

When you copy & paste from Microsoft Word, into web-based systems like WordPress or MODx, MS Word tries to bring it’s internal formatting along for the ride. All text in MS Word is styled in some way – fonts, font sizes, alignment, etc… so when you copy & paste it into your CMS, blog or whatever, this formatting comes along too, like an invisible hitch-hiker… See the article for the rest!

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