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Say goodbye to Paste from Word

With the latest upgrades to WYSIWYG Editor, you won't be missing it.
Lee-Yan Marquez | 20 Aug 2018
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The latest improvements to the WYSIWYG Editor will strip extraneous formatting when content from a document is pasted directly into the Body text area.

Old WYSIWYG editor with Paste from Word button
Old WYSIWYG editor with Paste from Word button

This means that users will no longer need the Paste from Word button to ensure clean content formatting from MS Word documents.

New WYSIWYG editor strips cruft from Word automatically
New WYSIWYG editor strips cruft from Word automatically

You’ll notice that direct pasting is now comparable, and even improves upon Paste from Word:

  • Cleaner <td> styles
  • Empty <p> tags are stripped
  • <i> tags for italics
  • <b> tags for bold
  • Alignments are preserved
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