Copy Paste from Word to Blogger : How to Rectify Formatting Issues

You can copy and paste text from MS Word to Blogger and you might have noticed that Blogger retains most of the formatting from the Word document in the post also. But the post when viewed on a browser may not look nice, especially if you have some numbered or bulleted text or table in it. If you try to change the formatting of the pasted Word content you get some weird results and it make things more difficult.

This happens because the formatting of MS Word is not the same as Blogger formatting. You can tidy up the HTML in the following ways.

Clear Word Formatting and Format Using Blogger Tools

You can see a Remove formatting tool on the Blogger post editor toolbar. In the Compose mode, select all the text inside the post body and click on the Remove Formatting button on the toolbar to clear all the formatting from the text inside the post body.

All the text formatting will be removed. Now you can make use of the Blogger formatting options to format the content as you like.

Paste as Plain Text

Another option is to use the Paste as Plain Text option while pasting content from MS Word or any other application. To do this, right click inside the post body area and select Paste as Plain Text from the popup menu or you can press Ctrl+Shift+v instead of Ctrl+v we usually use to paste. 

The content will be pasted as plain text and you can format it using the Blogger toolbar.

Cleanup Word HTML

You can also make use of some online tools to cleanup the messy HTML created by the Word formatting. 

To do this, first select the content from MS Word and copy it to clipboard. Now go to any Online HTML Cleaner website and paste your text Word file text box and click on Clean HTML button. Copy and paste the cleaned HTML Code in Blogger. Please remember to click on HTML tab on Blogger Post Editor to select HTML Code view before pasting the HTML Code.

You may make use of https://html-cleaner.com/ for the purpose.