Comments on: Pasting From Word Into WordPress Without Messing Up Your Blog’s Formatting

By: Jill Olkoski

Jill Olkoski — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:02:00 +0000

Hi Bonnie,
You are correct – the font styles do NOT carry over because you are pasting as PLAIN TEXT. This means no styling (font, bold, italics, underlined) will not be pasted, only the actual text. This is because WordPress should be setting these styles for you. WordPress has a site-wide stylesheet. This is a file that has the settings for all the text. This is why you want to paste as PLAIN TEXT – so that you allow the WordPress stylesheet to dictate what the styles are, and not an external program like Word. So you’re doing it right. Just use WordPress to adjust styles AFTER the paste operation is completed.
Note: if you only see one row of icons when editing a page or post, click on the very last icon – this will show a second row, which will give you more style choices.

By: bonnie beddall

bonnie beddall — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:47:14 +0000

Thank you for this great article. I did all that you said to do, but the font styles I am using do not carry over. Any suggestions?

By: Jill Olkoski

Jill Olkoski — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:05:43 +0000

I would not recommend using Paste from Word but rather use Paste as Plain Text and see if that helps at all. When using Paste as Plain Text, the only issue I’ve encountered is paragraphs with extra spaces.

By: Radus

Radus — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:25:20 +0000

I’ve got the following problem: no matter if I use the “Paste from Word” button or not some words are tied together in my WP article. Example: in UK shows up like inUK; in Denmark can swiom turns into “inDenmarkcan swim” and so on…
Any idea what can cause that behaviour?

By: Jill Olkoski

Jill Olkoski — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:50:12 +0000

Hi Amy,
thanks for the tip. I use textedit (since I’m on a mac) but it’s good to know NotePad is better.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:48:36 +0000

I sometimes find that WordPad holds on to formatting from Word. NotePad is the safer option.

By: Gérald

Gérald — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:51:17 +0000

Hi,
Thank you very much for this clear tutorial.