Copy/paste from word etc.

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G-Sun
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Copy/paste from word etc.

Post by G-Sun »

I'm having trouble getting a good workflow with copy/paste text from text-editors like OpenOffice (formats ods, doc, docx, html)

I'd like to preserve paragraph, line-breaks, bold, italic and lists

Lists was in fact ok in Webuilder as I could just select the lines, insert list, choose preferred and > all formatted nice.
However, all other basic formating I find hard to maintain, making everything hard and cumbersome.

Is there any recommended workflow, or is this just a shortcoming of Webuilder?

(v.12.2)

Thanks!
www.g-sun.no/en/
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Aivars
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Re: Copy/paste from word etc.

Post by Aivars »

You can use special tools that convert formatted office document text to plain HTML, such as: http://www.textfixer.com/html/convert-word-to-html.php

Using HTML code directly from office would be a bad idea since it's usually very dirty, full of unneeded and proprietary tags and such.
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G-Sun
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Re: Copy/paste from word etc.

Post by G-Sun »

Thanks!
Yes, that's a good idea. Thanks for the link!
I shortcut in the menu could be nice for a tool like that.
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