Word Trash

[joelgillespie]

I have a general question. When I first got going with our Web Site Baker based site I did a lot of cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word into the text editor. I didn't know then how much extra trash coding went along with that pasted text. I've even found that saving documents in Word as text files does not totally eliminate this problem. I've been told by different people that all the extra coding messes with the search engines and RSS feeds and such. I've tried to get rid of the mess but can't seem to. Does anybody have a suggestion as to how I could clean up my pages?

[marathoner]

A couple of thoughts:

1) If you have a copy of Dreamweaver it includes a feature to strip the extraneous tags/styles/code that Word generates.

2) Do a Google search on "clean up word html" and you'll see several utilities to do that.

3) You might try one of the better (but free) editors such as Notepad++ which already has many neat tools and you can also write your own macros to clean it up.

[thorn]

Hello,

what about the "insert from Word"(?) icon in FCKeditor? Didn't tested it, but it may work.

thorn.

[Eki]

How about copy-paste in Notepad and then copy again and paste in your page?
Notepad gets rid of all the HTML-tags by forehand.

grtz,
Erik

[Waldschwein]

Hello!

We had the same problem with the docu-page of WB, because it has to be Valid CSS/HTML and nealy all texts were in .doc/.odt.
First I would use the FCKEditor. I don't know if version 2.5 works here better, but the "insert from MS Word" does not really work as you expect. The only feature really get rid of all styling and unneccessary problems is the option "insert from textfile" direct next to the Word function. But when using "insert from textfile" all stylings and formattings like headings / blod/italic and so on is lost, you have to reformat the text in FCK. But this is the really best way to get sure the text is 100% "valid".

Regards Michael