Adding text from a Word Processor

Writing text in a word processor is great for preparing your copy, but when using the Rich Text Editor this can import styles form the word processor and make the text not appear correctly on the page.

Look at this text pasted directly from Word, it doesn’t look the same as the rest of the site. Whilst it's not a major problem on our site, if the background was black the text would disappear as Word carried across the black colour of the text and would overide the style of the site.

This happens because the extra styling information gets carried over. Whilst useful on the desktop its bad for the web and can cause the HTML to become messy and not meet standards. PubliSite offers serveral ways to avoid this.

If you copy and paste directly from word into PubliSite you will see a dialog box asking you if you want to clean the text of Word formating, but depending on the version of Word this still may leave a little extra code int the text.

The other options are to open up HTML view in the Rich Text Editor and copy the text into there and then return to the Rich text Editor view to style the text afterwards. Or open up Notepad on a PC or Textedit on a Mac and paste into those programs first before pasting into the Rich text Editor as this should also strip the formatting out.