{"id":797,"date":"2010-08-25T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-08-25T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T14:18:53","slug":"converting-ms-word-to-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2010\/08\/converting-ms-word-to-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting MS Word to HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pasting text into WebLearn’s WYSIWYG HTML editor which has been copied from either Microsoft Word or Outlook is a hit and miss affair.<\/p>\n

Pasting directly (via the ‘Paste’ button) is not recommended. Pasting using the ‘Paste from Word’ button does a better job but still leaves a large amount of unnecessary information interspersed within the text (use the ‘Source’ button to see this in action).<\/p>\n

Pasting via the ‘Paste as plain text’ button is a good approach but nearly all the formatting is lost.<\/p>\n

The best method I have seen is to use this website: http:\/\/word2cleanhtml.com\/<\/a> simply paste your text into the box and click the ‘Convert …’ button then click on the ‘Source’ button in the HTML editor and paste the resulting HTML into WebLearn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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