When creating a website, what is the best way of copying over alot of text/paragraphs from a word document?
I create a paragraph, and then go over to Word and copy the text i need, then use the EDIT- paste from Word option in bootstrap studio, but it seems to create alot of br breaks between sentences in the code.
I usually drag the word doc into google docs and check all the formating, setting each heading as it should be in the html. Heading one will be and H1 etc.
Then in google docs export as an html file. This will give lots of additional styling so then I use https://www.htmlwasher.com/ which will then strip out any unwanted sytles/spans etc.
Then in BSS paste the cleaned up code from htmlwasher into a custom code element and then convert to components.
This may seem a lot, but will only take a few minutes. You could probably do it straight from word rather than import into google docs, I just find it easier.
Whenever I’m copying text from any source (doesn’t matter if it’s a Word file, A PDF or even a website) I always paste it into a plain Windows .txt file, which strips ALL formatting. Then I copy it from the .txt file into BSS using CTRL+SHIFT+V and format as I desire.
It’s the only surefire way I’ve found to make sure there is no extraneous formatting.
I personally use Word to HTML, I copy the text from the Word document, and paste it into the site.
It produces HTML, and if your documents has things like headings and sub-headings it converts these correctly to H1 and H2 tags correctly.
Then I add a Custom Code element into BSS, edit it. Paste the raw HTML into it, apply this. Then select it from the side menu and choose “convert to components”
I find this especially useful for policy pages where clients typically supply this info as a Word doc.
Now you know three methods!
I like that, similar to my way, but a lot more streamline. I will be using that in future. Thanks for sharing.
Such great time-saving tips! Thankyou. I have tried afew methods suggested and it seems the easiest for me is to copy the text from the Word document into that Word to HTML converter, then into Custom Code and convert to components. Works great for large volumes of text.
Glad I could share this method I use and help you guys!
I do it like this