Copy and Paste from MS Word into vB Posts: Defining Text Color Attribute

[NashChristian]

Hello,

I have several styles for my vB site, a couple which use light backgrounds with dark text, and a couple which use dark backgrounds with light text.

I've found that as long as a user does NOT specify a text color when they submit their post, the style will automatically adjust the text color so that it is readable.

This is fine and good in most cases, but where I'm running into problems is when users copy and paste text from Microsoft Word, into a vB thread or reply. It seems that when you copy and paste from MS Word, it automatically attaches a color definition to each line of text.

This is most obvious when people are copying black text from Word and pasting it into vB. In the lighter styles it looks exactly as it should. However since each line of text is now defined as BLACK, on the styles that I have with a black background, the text is completely illegible.

I've been looking for a way to correct this, so that I can educate my users on a good work-around for this dilemma. A large portion of my site is for "Articles", so it is only natural that many people write and store their docs using Word.

Has anyone else ran into this problem? Is there an easy solution?

I've found that if you copy and paste the text first from Word into NotePad (which doesn't allow any text attributes), and then copy and paste the text from NotePad into vB, this will solve the problem. I'm just wondering if there is an easier solution, or a way in Word to strip the text attributes prior to the copy and paste, so it can go straight into vB?

Thanks for the help!
Jeff

[Opserty]

Disable usage of the [color] BBCode?

[NashChristian]

Originally Posted by Opserty

Disable usage of the [color] BBCode?

Dang, I would hate to have to disable ALL font colors in order to correct this.

However I would think that disabling the [color] BBCode would NOT stop the copy and paste process from including that information, it would probably just prevent the post from being accepted until the user manually went through each line of text and deleted those attributes. Am I correct???

Thanks for the help!
Jeff

[NashChristian]

Any other ideas???