I recently installed CKEditor for use with our drupal site. In general it works well and had lots of great functions, but the "paste from word" function doesn't seem to work consistently. I have a lot of multi-level lists and while it usually gets the numbering right, the indentation is very wonky sometimes and not just on numbered lists but on other bulleted lists as well. Even worse, the margins appear to be hardcoded and the indent and outdent buttons do not fix it.
I have hundreds of Word docs I need to convert to the drupal site and I cannot take the time to manually go in and correct formatting errors in each one via html. I'd say 90% of the doc looks right, but having pasted several documents, I haven't had a single one that was brought in without one or more glitches. Is there some setting I need to use to get Word docs to paste right every time?
I have hundreds of Word docs I need to convert to the drupal site and I cannot take the time to manually go in and correct formatting errors in each one via html. I'd say 90% of the doc looks right, but having pasted several documents, I haven't had a single one that was brought in without one or more glitches. Is there some setting I need to use to get Word docs to paste right every time?
Re: Paste from word glitches
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Re: Paste from word glitches
Re: Paste from word glitches
The problem lies mostly in how particular Word versions output the styling and formatting as well as how this is interpreted by particular browsers. If you have a look at CKEditor changelog, you will see that each editor release contains some fixes and workarounds for these inconsistencies. Unfortunately, what goes behind the scenes in the Word-browser copy and paste process is beyond our control, so all we can do is collect user reports for particular combinations of both and find workarounds for them.
If you are able to nail some issues with your setup, it would be most appreciated if you reported them on the Development site, as described here. In this way they will be investigated by our QA and some workarounds and fine-tuning can be found.
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