posting of word files with tables
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For the issue with Pasting from Word, see: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posting-of-word-files-with-tables?replies=6
Tables should be able to be pasted from Word or Google Docs directly into the Visual Editor on a PC or Mac, although the lines may not transfer over.
Beyond that, people using Firefox in particular are having issues pasting from other sources, so if that’s the case for you, you may wish to try a different browser for now.
If you must have an actual table in WordPress, you will need to create it via HTML in the Text Editor.
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Thanks for your reply, Jackie. I use Google Chrome as my browser, and I paste tables into the Visual Editor on my PC (laptop). Yes, it’s the lines that are not transferring over now, even though they transferred over in the past. My wife knows HTML better than I do, so perhaps she can teach me how to create a table via HTML in the Text Editor.
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I’m sorry the borders aren’t transferring over now. I’ll test it out and make a note of it for our developers, but I’m not sure if that will be resolved in the short run.
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Using OpenOffice and Firefox, document formatting disappears on pasting since Monday (italic, paragraph breaks, also hyperlinks). Please fix it or give the ability to use the old program.
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Right now we know Firefox is an issue. I’m not sure what the status is on fixing that, so I would encourage you to either switch to Chrome or consider doing your composing in the WordPress.com editor directly, rather than relying on copying and pasting from another source.
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I have the same problems with Firefox as others are reporting – formatting, links and footnotes disappear when I paste a document into WordPress. And I cannot post at all on Google Chrome. Is there a way to activate Google Chrome, so I can post using it?
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Is there a way to activate Google Chrome, so I can post using it?
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Have you installed Chrome and logged into your WordPress.com account in that browser?
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The proposed work-around (pasting into Chrome from Word 2010) works. Formatting is preserved.
But does anyone else find it is a devil-of-a-job to right-click and get the dialogue box with Paste in it? 9 or 10 times another dialogue box appears.
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I logged into Chrome with my WP account, and that works. But the pasing doesn’t work in Chrome, either.
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So why don’t you make me happy and just restore WP to what it was before this change? I am working on a blog post that has quite a few links and footnotes in it, and I would actually like to post it.
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I couldn’t agree more! I post daily and the problems I’m encountering on this new system have turned what was an easy process a miserable ordeal. Please return the ability to post from Word. Not a single one of my hyperlinks work with plain text. Each one has to be inserted manually, which is very time consuming. At least keep Word available as an option. From what I’m reading on this thread, not many WordPress users are happy with this needless change. It was working perfectly before. I’ve been using WordPress for 7 years.
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I’m sorry you continue to have difficulties with pasting in text. In my tests running the most recent versions of the browsers, pasting footnotes from Word into Chrome worked on both a Mac and a PC. In Firefox, it worked (with extraneous formatting code) on a Mac but not on a PC.
Hyperlinks worked in all of my tests although in Firefox on a PC, the link did not look like a hyperlink in the editor. They will be stripped out (along with all other formatting) if you use the Paste as Text button.
The Paste from Word button will not be returning. If you must regularly paste content from Word or another source, I would strongly recommend using Chrome. There may be some lost formatting even then, and in the end, it’s best if you compose your posts directly in the WordPress.com editor.
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This is not going to work for me as I use Firefox and have no intention to begin using a different browser.
My writers send me their work via email and Word attachments so I’m very, very disappointed in WordPress.com’s decision to remove the Word paste button.
Btw, the scroll bar is still missing on the visual editor with huge amounts of white space to scroll down to see Revisions/Comments, etc. at the end of the editor. Editing is a nightmare with all the scrolling to do. Yes, I started a new thread on this issue and no one has replied to it yet.
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I work with Win 8.1., OpenOffice and Firefox, and now, after pasting in WP-Editor, all formatting is lost.
Please give all users having the same „improvement“ the ability to use the old version of editor until the problem is fixed and successfully tested.
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I’m very sorry for the continued issues. The problems with Firefox have been reported to the developers but I do not have an estimate for when these issues may be resolved. If it’s important to you to be able to paste your text from another source into WordPress.com, I would strongly recommend you try a different browser for the time being.
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Update: I am able to post formatted content from Word to the editor in Chrome, so I’m using that method for now. However, our chief editor has tried this and Word-to-Chrome is not working for him for some reason.
There may be some lost formatting even then, and in the end, it’s best if you compose your posts directly in the WordPress.com editor.
Jackie, this is simply not possible for us. We run an ezine; writers submit stories and articles to us in rich-text formats, which are vetted for publication through an editorial review process. There is no reasonable way for us to receive all submissions via the WP.com editor.
Please let your technicians know the ability to paste in correctly formatted material from outside sources is a very important feature for many of us!
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Jackie,
What a disappointment to read that the Paste from Word button will not be returning. What’s the point of strongly recommending using Chrome, if you acknowledge there “may be some lost formatting even then. “ Composing posts directly in the WordPress.com editor is a substandard option for many of us. It will not work for what I do.I understand this was not your decision, but why the flawed choice was made to alter a perfectly good entity was made, is beyond me.
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@seeingredaz, WordPress is a community project, and what you see on WordPress.com is a merge of the WordPress 3.9 code. You may wish to read the development updates here, and contribute if you wish. http://wordpress.org/news/2014/03/wordpress-3-9-beta-1/
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By sheer accident, I found a way around the problem:
First, save the document as an HTML file. Then pick it up in Dreamweaver and preview the file. Then copy this and paste into WP. There will be no link from the text to the footnote, but at least the footnotes will be there.
Terribly circuitous, and I did find it by accident. Better than nothing, though.
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