Cleaning Text for Copy and Paste (Fixes Blank PDF)
Copying text from one source (such as Word) into Contractor Foreman is a huge time saver. Visually, most everything looks correct. But in the code, Word brings over a lot of nasty code that has a tendency to break things. That is true for many systems (not just Contractor Foreman). So how do you correctly bring over text from Word into Contractor Foreman without retyping it?
- Copy the text in Word
- Go to https://html5-editor.net/
- Paste the copied text into the right side
- Click the Clean button
- Optional: You can format the text here as desired
- Copy the HTML (left side)
- Paste it into the HTML preview in Contractor Foreman. Click the </> icon to go to HTML view (this makes the text background black instead of white)
- Click </> to move back to review mode
- Make necessary formatting changes
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