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1. Microsoft word copy paste formatting issues mac#
2. Microsoft word copy paste formatting issues windows#

I don't know about MS Word's formatting, but I saw there are and surrounding the content of what I'm trying to paste, still with a fair bit of inline styling junk I don't care about. I focused on parsing the "text/html" data. If I copy the same text into TextEdit then into Chrome, is ` (note there is no "Files" type). If I copy and paste from MS Word, the is However it works properly in both FireFox and Safari without any intervention from me. When I copy + pasted from MS Word into Chrome, nothing would happen. I do not want to copy in any other markup or images. My only goal has been to support bold, italic and anchor tags with href property. I've made a few observations trying to get Copy + Paste from MS Word into Chrome on MacOS, and here's what I've found.

Microsoft word copy paste formatting issues mac#

But pasting in Google Chrome on mac causes it to be shown as an embedded image.

If using the Safari Browser, the MS Word copy paste works very well - with the exception of bold text not being interpreted correctly. That was until I realised that I was using the Safari browser. I tested it all again today, and suddenly it all worked.

Microsoft word copy paste formatting issues windows#

No problem in copying the content from Word on Windows to Editor.js. The funny thing is, that it works perfectly on Windows. This is obviously nothing to do with Editor.js but more about the way Microsoft chooses to copy content in their apps on Mac. When copying from MS Word, even just two words, I get a huge long list of data in the clipboard (Note that you can't even see the end flag in the bottom of the terminal. When pasting the text into an MS Word document and copying the text again to the clipboard, I saw some different results: Then I copied it and ran osascript -e 'the clipboard as record' | less in the terminal and got the following: I created a file in TextEdit, with some dummy text. It doesn't work on Mac, but did some further testing. I have tested from a word document on Windows, and the editor.js works fine with copying from Word on Windows.

So if that is the case, it makes sense that editor.js processes Word content as an image, cause it may include bitmap data or similar due to the background in the document. If I open the Word Document inside Pages directly (not just copying the content) Pages will inform me that some changes have been made:

Pasting from MS Word causes the text to be converted to an embedded image, but if I copy from word, paste into Pages on mac, and then copy from Pages and paste in editor, everything works great, and each paragraph and headline is created as individual blocks of content.