Hi Heather,
There is no easy solution to this problem. The best thing to do in my opinion is to teach your content creators some basic HTML, so they understand why cutting and pasting directly from Word is evil! If people understand why they need to be more careful, then they're more likely to do so.
SharePoint Designer 2007 is our weapon of choice at the University for our content editors (Microsoft now offer this as a free download). Might be overkill, but it has a comparable feature set to Dreamweaver and is similar to Word in many respects. When pasting content from Word, you can remove the junk, then re-format it using the familiar interface in SPD. More information about this process can be found at the bottom of this page:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/wag/guides/sharepoint_designer/
Hope this helps,
Marty
Learning Technologist
Web and Learning Technology
Learning Technology Team
University of Essex
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-----Original Message-----
From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather Peake
Sent: 21 April 2010 12:32
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Subject: [VLES] Word format remover
Hello
we are starting to get issues with Word. People copy out of MS Word and paste in to the html editor in our VLE. The style on the finished page then ends up not quite what they wanted because MS Word puts so much hidden formatting across to the new environment which then clashes with the style sheets in the VLE.
Does anyone know of a cheap easy to use tool to strip the Microsoft 'stuff' off whilst still retaining the formatting. We know Notepad will take off all the extra formatting and we know Dreamweaver can strip out the Microsoft stuff, but Dreamweaver is a bit overkill for what we want and Notepad just removes too much.
Ideas / thoughts?
Thanks
Heather
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