

I always say in order to get the best code and layout for your content managed page you should format the content within the content manager itself. Therefore content must never be directly copied and pasted from Word to the content manager at all. It may look OK on some browsers, or even in the content manager, but behind the scenes there is some non-standard code that will break the website and it may not display correctly. When you copy and paste content from Word into a website content manager that code can be copied over with the content (behind the scenes) and inserted onto the web page too. The code used is not standard HTML but Microsoft Word coding that will not be interpreted by many popular browsers (including Microsoft Internet Explorer!). The user cannot see this code, it is “behind the scenes”. some special code is required for the software to format the text like this.

In order to format the text in Word, i.e. Why You Should Not Copy and Paste from Word This blog explains why and what you should do instead. This is not the correct way to copy your content onto your website and could lead to potential problems, even the website page not working. It is very common for website owners to create or be given content in a Microsoft Word document and they copy and paste that directly from Word into the content management system.
