<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><br>I think the fact that copying from Word or a web page and pasting into a plain text box strips out formatting -- is actually a<i> feature</i> of a plain text box. For my clients with TinyMCE, I actually have to add to the workflow: "Copy from Word or the web and then paste into Note Pad. Then copy and paste into the Drupal node/add." Wow -- all so that they can see the photo in the editor instead of a reference to it? <br>
<br>Has anyone else ever had to recommend to clients to paste into Note Pad as an intereim step? One thing that clients don't want are extra steps in the workflow. They think they want this rich editor thing, and I'm experimenting with trying to make the hard sell that they'd be better without it.<br>
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<br>Shai</font></div></blockquote></div><br>No matter how many times I warn clients not to paste Word directly into TinyMCE they do it anyway -- and then wonder why the formatting is so screwy. For a few habitual offenders I've turned TinyMCE off by default, and that has helped. <br>
<br>The paste from Word plugin actually does a decent job of remembering the formatting and stripping out the tags -- but what I would really love is a plugin that stripped out all the Word tags on pasting. <br><br>To me the second biggest annoyance with TinyMCE is when clients change thngs a lot like colors and then wonder why it isn't working the way they want and you go in and you see 20 span tags in a row. <br>
<br>A great Drupal filter would be one that cleans up messy html and strips out Word Tags -- anyone know of a good function that does that? I can turn it into a filter and share. <br><br>Nonetheless, I can't imagine my clients going with an editor that isn't WYSIWYG. It's a common expectation. But I find if I just give them a few buttons it works a lot better.<br>
<br>Sam<br><br><br></div>