When pasting content from WORD a lot of the markup is being cleared up by using "Force cleanup on standard paste" using TinyMCE and WYSIWYG module. It seems however to leave in the following code:
<p> </p>
Is there any way so that I can filter this out?
As far as i know does tinymce have a clean code function. When this one is called it should remove the empty paragraphs.
But you should have to try this...
A quick and easy way is just to put something like this in your theme's template.php:
<?php
function THEMENAME_preprocess_node(&$vars, $hook) {
$vars['content'] = str_replace('<p> </p>','', $vars['content']);
}
That just does a quick find and replace to replace the empty paragraph with nothing. It's sort of a hack, but it works.
Are you sure that it's caused by TinyMCE and WYSIWYG? It can also be the combination of a setting in WYSIWYG (when "Remove linebreaks" is off) and your input filter settings ("Line break converter" is on).
I think it's come from: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=6005
You can filter at node saving time: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_filter/6