eduBuzz blogs now have a “Paste from Word” editor button.

Up till now, if you pasted content from Word then you’d often end up with odd-looking results. That happened because pasting brought over not just the content you wanted, and structural information like tables, but also formatting information, such as fonts and font sizes. Ideally, we want the blog’s theme to control presentation to keep posts looking consistent.

The WordPress Plain Text plugin, suggested by Ollie Bray, provides an alternative solution. Because this is such a common problem, we’ve installed it as a site-wide plugin.

The key benefit it brings is the ability to include tables in blog posts and pages in a way that avoids any need to use HTML.

Here’s an example of pasting from a Word document using the tool.

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