Copying & Pasting into the Text Editor

[Vic James]

When you cut, copy & paste text from another source into our text editor, the associated formatting styles also get copied along with the text. For example, from a word document or another web page. You might find the text editor is hard to use after doing this.

The solution:

If pasting from another webpage or email (html)

Instead of just pasting straight into the text editor

Click on this icon first .

A Paste as Plain Text pop up will open.

If you paste (Ctrl + V) into this pop up and then press . Your text will be pasted into your text editor without any formatting ready for you to format afterwards.


If pasting from Word or similar

Instead of just pasting straight into the text editor

Click on this icon first .

A Paste from Word pop up will open.

If you paste (Ctrl + V) into this pop up and then press . Your text will be pasted into your text editor without any formatting ready for you to format afterwards.