Sent by peeter talvistu on 7 November 2003 18:06
I know for a fact that at least for HTMLArea there are plugins that can
clean up the word code.
This can be either done on paste or via selecting the text and clicking on a
button.
It is done by simply searching through the text and removing the unwanted
tags. It is hard to make it work 100% well, though, because Word's html is
so - and let me be blunt - idiotic (thousands of <b> and <strong> tags for
marking one paragraph bold for example).
Peeter
> Honestly, I don't see how you could expect a WYSIWYG
> editor to do a perfect job of handling MS Word junk
> given the facts A) most users don't really know how to
> use WYSIWYG word processors properly (would we have
> these problems if everyone still used WordPerfect 4
> for DOS?) and B) you get problems even when you paste
> text from one Word doc to another.
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