pasting text with source formatting in word

I noticed there are other special considerations for formatting within the Lesson module, so watch for that specifically. There are several suggestions posted within the forum, search 'clean word HTML' and you'll see the lot. I've seen one suggestion where folks are copying the word text into Notepad, then copying the Notepad text and pasting it into Moodle (but I know you will lose your text boxes with that trick.)Īnother suggestion is to send the Word document to a gmail account you create and you will see the option to see as a Word document, OR as HTML - by copying & pasting the converted HTML code, you will likely get a more accurate HTML version of your Word document. If you require the use of text boxes/blocks and other formatting, you will likely need to re-create it using HTML tags, OR create your document and convert it to PDF to maintain that kind of formatting. Whenever you copy/paste Word text, you get a lot of extra 'junk' code. Which is very very handy! Thanks Rob and BAT for sharing this, you saved me from a lot of frustration.Suzanne, I run into this often and found that it is necessary to use the 'clean Word HTML' button in the editor (you'll find it, looks like the word icon) Unfortunately, if you use anything beyond the basics, the formatting won't hold. Now you have created a shortcut that maps to the “paste and match formatting” menu item. These are 2 documents with the exact same text, but formatted with two different Page themes. And in the keyboard shortcut use the key combination COMMAND-V Answer (1 of 3): This is Microsoft’s explanation of the Paste options: Here is an illustration of how they work.Use the following as the “Menu Title”: Paste and Match Formatting.So how do you “change” the default “paste” option? Well, you don’t really, but you can configure a shortcut and set it to call a menu item. I do want to point out that all credits for this trick go to user “BAT”, and of course thanks to Rob Nolen for tweeting this! As I received a question about it today I figured I would write a short blog as the original post on this topic is difficult to find. I never knew how to do this until I recently saw a tweet about it. Pasting formatted text just messes up your whole document. Answer (1 of 3): This is Microsoft’s explanation of the Paste options: Here is an illustration of how they work. I always wanted it to default to match the formatting of the document I am working in, or even paste in unformatted text. Something that bugged me for a long time on a Mac was the copy/paste behavior.

Pasting text with source formatting in word