Pasting from Word into Manila edit box

R. Scott Granneman scott at granneman.com
Thu Dec 11 10:50:48 PST 2003


We tell our clients to download NoteTab Light, a free ASCII text editor.

Copy from Word, paste into NTL, copy from NTL, paste into Manila.

They have to redo formatting, but that's no biggie.

None of our clients mind at all. And it's pretty darn easy.

Scott

Bob Raiselis wrote:

> I have some website users who compose in Word and then cut and paste
> their text into the edit-this-page window in their Manila website.
> Creates a huge mess what with Word's strange formatting commands, not to
> mention things like curly quotes which do not carry over.
> 
> Anyone solved this? short of having them resave as a text document, or to
> cut and paste into notepad or something first. Needs to be a user-
> friendly solution.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Bob
> 

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