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How to paste Word doc text into posts or pages
If you’re trying to get text from a Word document to place into a post or page, you need to go about it the right way or you could end up with a lot of hidden coding that bloats the size of your web page.
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We have found that this doesn’t *always* work. This made us sad pandas.
Glad it’s working for you though.
You’re quite right, Liz, and I debated long and hard about what to say in the video on that subject. But on the whole, in my experience with clients, the mess that Word creates is worse than any formatting issues caused by this method. You definitely need to check what gets imported to make sure it didn’t mess up something.
Perhaps there’s another video here, but prior to using WordPress, I always had clients copy the Word text from their screen and place it in a barebones text editor. The disadvantage there, of course, is that all formatting is lost and you need to re-bold, etc.
I know very complex formatting can get lost in pasting this way. On the other hand, complex formatting rarely works well on the web so I usually advise clients to break up the information into more web-sized (and HTML-friendly) bites.
So, caveat paster