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I've been testing the pasted text handling with the HTML Editor demo on your site and cannot seem to get it to work correctly.
First, I don't see any difference regardless of which filter I select. And when pasting from Word through IE9, it's a real mess. Pasting from Chrome is much better, which seems odd.
Does the Windows or Office version make a difference? I'm testing with some simple text from Word 2003. on Windows 7. Nothing special in the formatting.
Also, does your newest update to 2012 impact this control?
I just need to explain to my users how to paste text from Word.
Thanks.
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Hi,
The Filter removes certain "garbage formating" MS Word produces. When MS Word copies as HTML format, it tries to stuff it with quite some special CSS classes/attributes that only other MS applications would understand/use. For example, it would use class="MsoNormal" for normal text where this class would make no sense in the target HTML context. The MS Word filter would remove that. Other than "cleaning up" the filter does not really try to alter or reformat the contents.
What the filter "cleans up" pretty much based on what we observed. So Office version, or even patches will definitely make a difference. Unfortunately we do not have any control on this, MS doesn't give any official documentation/reference on what the copied HTML contains either.
The new 2012 update does not impact this feature.
Thanks!
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