Copy and Paste Plain Text
The above solution works, but it’s not perfect. There can still be formatting issues when you paste text using the Insert from Word tool in WordPress. If you want to ensure there is absolutely no extra code or formatting problems, then the best option is to paste the text from Word without any formatting of any kind applied to it. That means you need to paste plain text, which requires a couple of extra steps, which are explained in the next paragraph.
Simply open
Notepad on your PC (or Text Editor on your Mac) and paste the text from Word into a new Notepad (or Text Editor) file. Copy the text from Notepad (or Text Editor) and paste it into the WordPress post editor. No extra code will be added. However, if there was any formatting in the original text that you want to use in your
blog post or page (such as bold, links, and so on), you will need to add those from within WordPress.
Another option is to use an
offline blog editor to create and publish posts and pages to your WordPress blog. When you copy and paste text from Word to an offline blog editor, the problem with the extra code being added usually does not occur and most formatting is retained correctly.
