If you've ever tried to copy text from a Microsoft Word document and then paste it into a post or page within Wordpress, then you know that text never looks right when you publish it to your blog. Suffice it to say, Word and Wordpress are not very compatible.
The problem is that when you copy text from Word and then paste it into Wordpress, a bunch of extra HTML code gets inserted into the text. You won't be able to see the extra code in the Wordpress visual editor, but if you switch to the Wordpress HTML editor and know a bit of HTML, you'll notice lots of extra code throughout your blog post that has no reason to be there other than to cause formatting problems on your blog.
Fortunately, there is a way to copy and paste text from Word to Wordpress without extra code mysteriously appearing. Simply open Notepad on your PC and paste the text from Word into a new Notepad file. Copy the text from Notepad and paste it into Wordpress. 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 extra code being added does not occur and most formatting is retained correctly.
