Word to Web Editor
One of the most common task you will encounter is copying text and graphics from one application into another. Here we look at how to copy content from one software application like word to a web page and how to avoid formatting problems.

Word documents appear to be simple but in fact they have massive amounts of formatting on them which might conflict or bloat the html in a web page. There are two ways to do this. One is to strip all formatting by copying text into notepad or another text editor.

The other is for some online web editors. They often have a paste from Word option, an icon choice with the W for Word on it. This option takes out the extra formatting specific to Word without taking out header 1 tags, bold and italic tags etc. So if you have a document and wish to retain these from the Word document but lose the rest, try this option. Just check the html afterwards to see that there are not stray bits of code that you don’t need.

Also you may find working online that the normal copy and paste commands don’t work. You may have to use keyboard commands instead.

Ctrl+ C is the equivalent of copy
Ctrl + V is the equivalent of paste

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