Copying Pasting Word 2007 docs to HTML WYSIWYG editors

Question

Microsoft word has a ton of proprietary formatting and styles that do not translate well to html WYSIWYG editors. When you paste them over to the html editor and try to edit the pasted info it causes all kinds of clashing styles. I want to be able to keep the general structure but leave out the proprietary stuff. Essentially I want to save clients the headache of having to completely strip out all formatting forcing them to redo all the styling again in the WYSIWYG, but at the same time avoid the conflicts that Word formatting creates. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Would something like the TinyMCE paste plugin work?

Answer 2

I have always advised clients to paste their content into notepad first before copying it over into something like TinyMCE.