By NaSPA1 on

OK, we've been struggling with coming up with a quick, easy method for a non-technical editor to quickly post articles that were originally prepared with word. Optimal solution would enable our editor to open a minimally formatted MS Word document (Bold / Italics, Paragraph breaks etc..) and copy / paste it into a Drupal post with or without using TinyMCE.

Has anyone come up with a configuration of Drupal filters, etc and/or TinyMCE (or other WYSIWYG) editor that does a decent job of making this happen?

Thanks!

Radi Shourbaji
NaSPA, Inc.
http://www.NaSPA.com
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brenda003’s picture

brenda003
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commented

If I remember correctly, there's a "Paste from Word" button in TinyMCE.

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NaSPA1 commented

Yes, we were using the TinyMCE "Paste from Word" button. And it's doing a decent job of it. After starting with an empty Input Format, then adding the various filters we need 1 x 1... it seems the "Line Break Filter" is the culprit for the majority of the mangled renderings we were getting.

So while I'm still seeking "recipes" for success with this, by using the default TinyMCE settings and an Input Format WITHOUT the Line Break filter -- seems to get it pretty darn close...

Radi Shourbaji
http://www.NaSPA.com - Now Drupal Powered!

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aaraskumar commented

"Paste from word" works fine.Does that copy both text and images in a word document and paste in the editor?...
It is not working for me. Let me the know-how if it is working for you.

aras

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tregeagle commented

Yes there is a "Paste From Word" button in TinyMCE It pops open a dialog for pasting your Word doc into. Then is does some black-magic voodoo stuff which sucks out all the Microsoft evility.

TinyMCE also has some HTML friendly options to avoid the <font> tags and generally clean up stuffed code. Your users can also easily upload and embed pictures and other media using the excellent IMCE module.

Having said all that I should add that installing it can sometimes be a bit tricky.
I just reinstalled TinyMCE and IMCE module today because my old install had developed some strange bugs. I had to manually add some tables to my DB to get it going. I think it has been worth the trouble as it will make thing easier for my users and mean less support calls to me!!

cheers
- ruben

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Naqueen commented

I really needed this, thanks. A lot of my content is coming from Word and my users don't know how to optimize it on their own. Also to get mine working properly I had to uncheck the filtered html option from my Filtered html input format. I was losing all formatting on display...
-- Na