If you cut and paste a section of text that includes links and other formatting from Microsoft Word to the Wordpress WYSIWYG, you will end up with a nasty mess of code and will have problems getting the text to format to your site the way you want. When you cut HTML from Word, there’s a lot of extra code (which you won’t see unless you look for it) that overrides your CSS values. You could click on the “Code” tab in Wordpress and manually remove the extra code, but that’s very time consuming and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you could delete something important.
Instead, do this:
While you’re in the Wordpress post editor, hover your cursor over the buttons to see the labels. Click on the button labeled “Show/Hide Advanced Toolbar”. You can also press Alt+Shift+V (Firefox) or Alt+V (IE) to show the Advanced Toolbar. This will add some extra functionality, like buttons to undo and format your font, to your toolbar. You will then see a button labeled “Paste from Word”. When you click it, a small window will pop open and you can paste your text there and click “Insert”. This will insert the text into your post and remove the unnecessary formatting.
Please note that if you are copying an image, it may not show up and the code may not format properly for the image. Other non-image formatting should be fine.
