Paste Easily to WordPress From MS Word |
||||
|
January 15th, 2008 by Scott 
I’ve always recommended that people not paste text directly into WordPress from Microsoft Word, and instead suggested that they open their Microsoft Notepad, paste into Notepad, then copy and paste back into WordPress. This extra step removes the stupid formatting put in place by Microsoft Word. Apparently, a recent addition to WordPress (maybe 2.3?) added a button on the WordPress text editor that allows you to paste information directly from Microsoft Word, and instantly strips out all the formatting. I’m exactly not sure how long it’s been there, but it works very well. First you have to open the advanced toolbar options to see the new button button -
This expands the menu to a second level where you will immediately see the option for Microsoft Word pasting.
Hitting that button opens another small window, where you can paste from Word to your hearts content.
Nice! 23 Responses to “Paste Easily to WordPress From MS Word”Leave a Reply | ||||
|
|||||||
|
|
| |||||
Wordpress Services |Privacy & Security | Refund Policy | Sitemap
Copyright © 2013; Search Commander, Inc. Portland, Oregon - All Rights Reserved. --- #Login -
May 4th, 2009 at 6:08 am
thank you
I had this problem with IE and your clarification here helped me a lot
Josef
May 6th, 2009 at 11:55 am
You are wonderful. My front page issue is resolved and I am ecstatic. TY TY TY
I agonized over it for days because I couldn’t stand the way it looked.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Hi,
Thanks a lot. I have the same issue. Now i need to rework the pages in my website.
Cheers,
Jennifer
May 19th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Luckily, it was the last post I had put up. As soon as I deleted it everything was ok.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Thanks for the great tip!
One other question, when I import the doc in fromword, sections that are bulleted come out in very small type. How can I make it the same size as the rest of the document?
Thanks,
Jim
June 11th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Thank you so much!
It really helped!
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:23 am
For some reason, your comment bounced to the spam folder, i’m sorry for the delay-
Anyway, if the formatting still isn’t right, then I know of no way to get it “correct” without first pasting from MS word into MS Notepad or WordPad, then pasting into WordPress. That box is supposed to strip out all Word formatting, but doesn’t always work, depending on your version of Word…
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Thanks for the info, my blog was having issues with IE as well and it solved my problem!!
Sam
June 27th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
[...] use the inbuilt Paste from Word option in the Visual Editor. Or Windows [...]
July 26th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I could not import “WordArt.” A blank text box was visible, but no image.
July 26th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
No, you can’t import WordArt because it’s not text – you have to save the wordart as an image, and add it like any other image…
August 19th, 2010 at 8:26 am
How can I get what I write in Word to KEEP the same formatting for my website ? Everytime I copy text, using the MS Word pasting, it changes the format and it become a nightmare to get the page looking the way I want it. Am spending sooooo much time on this. Frustrating.
Please help !
January 1st, 2011 at 7:08 am
So helpful, thank you. A great feeling to have mastered yet another step
January 26th, 2011 at 6:25 am
Hi, thanks for detailed explaination of this usefull trick.But , what we can do if we have some images in word document also , as I tried it only paste texts? Is there any word press plugin for this purpose? Thanks again.
January 26th, 2011 at 9:16 am
You’re welcome!
Stripping of the MS Word formatting removes everything, however – even if it didn’t do that, you would still be forced to upload the images, because those Word document photos are in your own c:/My Documents/My Pictures/ etc. folder!
There’s no WP plugin (that I’m aware of… anyone?), and this is the only way I know of to easily paste photos into WordPress and there’s a 2 minute demo video on the page. Works really well, and it’s great for adding a lot of photos to a page…
March 19th, 2011 at 6:13 am
Thanks for a super “to the point” post.
I can never remember which tool to use to paste Word text into WordPress.
September 29th, 2011 at 7:30 am
I use Textarea found on http://www.mytextarea.com to convert messy text from MS Word to clean plain text for pasting into WordPress. It works like a charm!
August 9th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Where is this toolbar? I’m using 3.4.1 & I don’t see it… Also when I type to add content to anything in my admin area I.E. under :add new post” or when making a new page etc… Nothing shows when I type there??
Any suggestions?
August 10th, 2012 at 9:26 am
First you have to open the advanced toolbar options to see the new button button – See the top image in the post – when you hover over it, it says “Show Hide kitchen Sink” – That brings up the second toolbar. It’s there in all WP versions…
As far as this goes –
“…in my admin area I.E. under :add new post” or when making a new page etc… Nothing shows when I type there??”
sorry, I’ve got no clue – Try Firefox?
August 10th, 2012 at 9:39 am
Thank you for the reply.. I don’t see any toolbar or any place to open a toolbar.. Where would that be? And I am using Firefox, IE blows! lol
September 18th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
I utilize TinyMCE Advanced plugin for wordpress and that has helped a lot. I still, on occasion use Word for spellcheck, then copy into something like Notepad++ to remove formating issues and then into wordpress. It just depends on how big or how long the article is that I’m working on.
September 29th, 2012 at 12:23 am
If I want to copy a wordart to WordPress it will always show only the textinformation but not the real Wordart.
How can I copay Wordart text to WordPress?
September 29th, 2012 at 7:52 am
You would have to take a screen-shot image of the wordart, and post it as a graphic. I know of no other way…