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Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

Last post 07-11-2005, 11:40 AM by Adam. 11 replies.


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06-30-2005, 11:39 AM 8221

jameswhittaker
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Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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When I paste the content of the attached document into the editor, it seems to lose format and when i re-display it in ms word, the font has changed from arial to Times New Roman.

It behaves differently when I user ConfirmWord as the PasteBehaviour. When I choose not to clean the code, it mainly seems to display ok in preview mode (whereas cleaning the code screws up line spacing, indentations, bullet points etc.)

However when i put the content out as a word document, the font is Times New Roman!

Any thoughts?

Cheers - James

/uploads/letter2load.doc

06-30-2005, 11:50 AM 8222 in reply to 8221

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
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Re: Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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James.

When you copy from the word, the html content in clipboard is quite messy and a bit bigger.

When you paste this content to the editor, If you choose PasteWord function, Cute Editor will clean the content for you. The content will be cleaned as the standard HTML code. But you may lose some formatting.

If you don’t want to lose your word formatting, please choose not clean your code.

Hope it helps.

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06-30-2005, 11:56 AM 8224 in reply to 8222

jameswhittaker
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Re: Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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Yes i tried that, and came to the same conclusion. I get a better look in the editor if i dont clean the code.

What is odd is that the original word document is Arial, it appears in the editor as arial ( i have set the default font to arial for the editor, as per instructions somewhere on this forum.) But when i render it out as MS word again, by simply writing the content out in the response with the appropriate type to load word up, it comes out as Times New roman?

James

07-04-2005, 5:17 AM 8337 in reply to 8224

jameswhittaker
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Re: Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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Hi Adam

Any thoughts on why this is happening. This is becoming an issue for us here now and we need to try and resolve this asap. We have the editor in use on several projects, and others are experiencing similar issues when pasting in from MS Word.

Thanks - James

07-05-2005, 11:06 AM 8360 in reply to 8337

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
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James,

Can you upload your a word document which demonstrates this problem?

Thanks.

07-05-2005, 11:17 AM 8362 in reply to 8360

jameswhittaker
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Re: Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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In my first post there is a link to a document which loses formatting. On our install of the editor, it changes font to Times New Roman when rendered back to word.

Even if you paste it into your default demo of the editor on this site, and select NOT to clean the code as you suggested. It remains in arial font in the editor, but when you print from the editor using the icon, the resulting printout is not the same as the original word doc. The spacing and font size look completley different to me.

Thanks - James

07-05-2005, 11:21 AM 8363 in reply to 8362

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
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Re: Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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James,

Do you mind if I post the content of the document to this forum for testing?

07-05-2005, 11:26 AM 8365 in reply to 8363

jameswhittaker
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no, i took out any address stuff. Is all about Freedom of Information in the UK, so they can hardly argue if it goes on the web!

James

07-05-2005, 11:32 AM 8367 in reply to 8365

Adam
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Re: Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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James,

Let's try it here:

I think the following code can only be understood by Word:

Paul Holmes MP<o:p></o:p>

07-06-2005, 4:05 AM 8393 in reply to 8367

jameswhittaker
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Re: Pasting MS Word, loses format, changes font ?

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Did you try it and get anywhere?

WHat seems odd is that assuming i dont clean the cdoe, the content pasted in and hence saved to the db, is the original content out of MS word, with absolutely no formatting changes. If the editor makes no changes at any point, why when it is rendered out as word is the style changed?

James

07-11-2005, 6:15 AM 8566 in reply to 8393

jameswhittaker
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Hi Adam

Our users are still having problems with this. Did you have any additional suggestions to try?

They are basically frustrated with the fact that when pasting into the editor there do tend to be formatting changes to the document of various types.

Is this as good as it gets and is this a restriction of working with MS word and pasting into the editor?

James

07-11-2005, 11:40 AM 8575 in reply to 8566

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
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James.

I deleted the doc file you uploaded by mistake. Can you upload it again?

It's my point:

If you paste your word document into the editor directly without cleaning the code, you should get something like the following:

Paul Holmes MP<o:p></o:p>

The above code can only be understood by MS Word.

style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" is not valid HTML code and it will be removed after cleaning.