The latest听improvements to the WYSIWYG听Editor听will strip extraneous formatting when听content from a document is pasted directly into the Body text area.
![Old WYSIWYG editor with Paste from Word button Old WYSIWYG editor with Paste from Word button](/web-services/files/web-services/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/screenshot-testbed2.ccs_.mcgill.ca-2018.08.16-15-50-01.png?itok=IRccTk7p)
Old WYSIWYG editor with Paste from Word button
This means that听users will no longer need the Paste from Word button to ensure clean content formatting from MS Word documents.
![New WYSIWYG editor strips cruft from Word automatically New WYSIWYG editor strips cruft from Word automatically](/web-services/files/web-services/styles/wysiwyg_extra_large/public/screenshot-testbed2.ccs_.mcgill.ca-2018.08.16-16-00-28.png?itok=-9aotRLf)
New WYSIWYG editor strips cruft from Word automatically
You鈥檒l notice that direct pasting is now comparable, and even improves upon Paste from Word:
- Cleaner <td> styles
- Empty <p> tags are stripped
- <i> tags for italics
- <b> tags for bold
- Alignments are preserved