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WordOff: The Cure for the Word Blues

by Daniel on February 10th, 2009 3 Comments »

Here’s a scenario that’s all too common among anybody who updates the content of their web site: You receive a Microsoft Word document with text that needs to be put online. The logical thing to do would be to copy and paste the content from Microsoft Word into a WYSIWYG editor, common in most content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla, and so forth.

So what’s the problem? The behind-the-scenes formatting code put in place by Word. This code is inserted with good intentions in mind, but more often than not results in you wasting a good amount of time manually reformatting all of the text. In some cases this is done on a line-by-line basis.

That’s where WordOff.org comes to the rescue.

WordOff.org is a handy web site with one purpose: It allows users to paste text, copied from Microsoft Word, into the text box they provide. Once that is done, you simply click on the “clean up” button and within a second or two your content will have the Word formatting removed.

Now all you have to do is copy the clean content from the text box and paste it into your WYSIWYG editor.