Please please please stop pasting into your WordPress and Drupal sites straight from MS Word without converting to plain text first! There is nothing I love more than going to see a clients sites in use only to be blown away by hideous font action that has nothing to do with my theme styling. I check out the code view and what do you know? Tons superfluous in-line MS Word styling.

Sometimes if I am not busy I actually go in and clean it all up. Leading to strange questions like “why do my fonts keep changing?” I take that opportunity to re-introduce them (sometimes for the third or fourth time) to the paste as plain text function in their WYSIWYG editor. I also encourage them to write directly into their CMS’ and save as drafts or keep them un-published until ready to go live rather than writing entries in word and just pasting them in.

So please help your site stay pretty and always press that paste as plain text button BEFORE you paste from MS Word. It is one extra click but don’t be lazy.