Hyperlinks not copying from MS Word

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  airshipambassador · Member · Mar 28, 2014 at 3:24 am

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  For the last 4 years, I could write a post in MS Word 2003 and include hyperlinks in the text.
  Then I would copy the text into WordPress and all the hyperlinks would appear.

  Today, I followed the same process but none of the hyperlinks appeared.
  Only plain text copied into the WordPress editor.
  I was still able to manually add all of the hyperlinks.

  Thanks for any suggestions about how to retain the hyperlinks from Word

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  airshipambassador · Member · Mar 28, 2014 at 3:36 am

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  Upon further review, all formatting is missing when I copy from Word to WordPress

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  airshipambassador · Member · Mar 29, 2014 at 4:31 am

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  I found more information – on 3/24 there was an update to WordPress and the new code seems to have an issue with copy and pasting Word text into the Visual editor when using Firefox.

  The temporary solution is to try another browser and hope for the best, or save the Word text as a web document / html and then copy that in WordPress.

  See these two threads for more information
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-paste-as-word-button-has-been-removed-from-the-visual-editor?replies=5

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posting-of-word-files-with-tables?replies=6

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 29, 2014 at 4:40 am

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  I suggest, rather, using Windows Live Writer instead of Word. Then it saves both formatting and links automatically.