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problem pasting in tables from word


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Guy Van Bael

Community Member, 61 Posts

5 April 2012 at 7:09pm

Edited: 05/04/2012 9:08pm

Hi,

I encountered a problem when pasting in tables from word in de $content-field (tinymce-editor). When pasting, it keeps the formatting from word which causes the table to exceed the content div. I also can't use the "paste as plain text"-option, because then it isn't a table anymore.

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks,
Guy

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swaiba

Forum Moderator, 1899 Posts

5 April 2012 at 9:09pm

How about opening the HTML in a popup and pasting the raw HTML in there?

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Guy Van Bael

Community Member, 61 Posts

7 April 2012 at 1:19am

That's exactly what i did and it keeps the messy html code that word generates.
I found a pretty decent solution though. Just take the table (from Excel) and past it in this website
http://www.shancarter.com/data_converter/

It cleans up the code pretty nicely....

But.... @Microsoft...please let your products generate decent html...

Guy