anchors for internal hyperlinks lost when pasting into wordpress – help please!

rationaldb8 · Member · Nov 3, 2012 at 9:01 pm
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Hi folks,

I created an MSWord document that had extensive internal hyperlinks for endnotes. When I copied it into wordpress, external links were maintined, but I lost all of the anchors for the internal links between the endnote and the article itself.

I’ve already found out how to manually create anchors, but I need to know if there is some way to paste into wordpress without losing ones that already exist.

Thanks in advance for your help with this frustrating issue!

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timethief · Member · Nov 3, 2012 at 9:07 pm
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See Row 2 Visual editor icon 6 Paste from Word
timethief · Member · Nov 3, 2012 at 9:08 pm
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oops! Here are the links I forgot to post above. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

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rationaldb8 · Member · Nov 3, 2012 at 9:12 pm
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Ok, so if I use the paste from word button, it won’t strip the anchors out?
timethief · Member · Nov 3, 2012 at 9:53 pm
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I don’t know if it will or not because I have not tested it. I do know that Word is full of junk code as Microsoft has never given a toss about making it web compliant. So if you do not use that icon to strip the junk code out then you will have issues.
rationaldb8 · Member · Nov 3, 2012 at 10:35 pm
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Ok. I’ll just have to try it next time something comes up. I wound up manually re-entering over 100 anchors for one post I already did. Needless to say, it was a pain in the bee-hind. Also discovered that the syntax for anchors is different on my homepage/site here, versus on another site that allows folks to create a ‘diary’ and then post, also using wordpress. Here it’s a id=”uniquename”, there it’s the normal html syntax of a name=”uniquename”. What fun (trying to figure this stuff out and then keep it straight!)

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