We heard the cries and we now have a new text editor.  The main issue that we were facing with the previous on is the usage on FireFox and Copy/Pasting from MS Word.  The Paste From Word feature only worked in Internet Explorer. This meant when you copy and pasted from MS Word in FireFox, along came a nightmare of ridiculous code that only a Microsoft application could produce.  Don’t get me wrong, I use MS Word, but the code still produced major, ongoing formatting problems for users.

After trying dozens of different WYSIWYG text editors, we finally chose an open source application.  This was not just about cost.  The previous text editor not open source and required a license to use.  We wanted a simple, efficient and versatile application that would integrated well with our application.

So, all users should now keep this in mind when copy and pasting from MS Word.  There is a new Icon in the Text Editor, it looks like  a little “Broom”  This will “Clean” the code that is pasted into the editor.  You will first HIGHLIGHT ALL THE TEXT in the editor and then click the “Broom Icon” or “Clean HTML” Icon. The next screen will look like this below and give you several options (you can just leave the default check boxes as they are).  Just click OK and you are done.  This will clean up the text/html and you will see perfect results in both Internet Explorer and FireFox. Enjoy!

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