Well, sometimes you might feel like writing your posts in Word until you realize that copying from Word to Wordpress doesn’t work very well.

What to do then? Well, it’s tricky, but I have found not just one, but several solutions. Some solutions are good for short posts without much formatting, others work better for long posts, ebooks or articles.

Word to Notepad to Wordpress

I guess you figured out that the easiest solution would be to simply convert the Word text into a plain text without all the crap MS Word is inserting. Copying the text into notepad will erase all the text formatting. Well, we don’t want that, but if your text is short this is the easiest solution.

You can also use a wordpress plugin to convert your word text into plain text with just one click: Wordpress Plain Text Plugin

Got a long text with lots of formatting? No worries, let’s move on to the next solution:

Copy & Paste from Word to Wordpress

The following video is a guide that will show how to copy text from word and paste it into Wordpress properly. The video is about 10 minutes long. It’s a great video that explains how to copy & paste from Word to Wordpress properly and it will explain how to fix the messed up Word code.

My solution

If you are about to write an article, follow the steps below and you wil be able to publish a blog post through Open Office. This might come in handy when you are traveling and you can’t go online all the time, then you will simply format your article using the ICE Open Office Toolbar and you are able to publish the articles as soon as you have a connection again!

Word to OpenOffice to AtomPub to Wordpress

1. Download and install OpenOffice.org

2. Download ICE toolbar for OpenOffice.org (development version)

3. Install the toolbar using these instructions.

4. Download and install ICE

Open your Word document in OpenOffice Writer and follow the instructions below.

1. It is important to know that you have to style your document using the ICE! That means you have to re-apply your formatting via the ICE toolbar.

2. Make sure to save  the document

3. Enable the ICE Toolbar (it should active if you just installed the toolbar), click on Atom Pub.

   

4. Follow this example:

Publishing Content Through OpenOfficeImportant! URL for publishing to Wordpress will be formatted as follows: http://yourusername.wordpress.com/wp-app.php

You should check out the demonstration, and test it via this sample document.

The information about the ICE toolbar have been found on: http://ice.usq.edu.au