When users paste text from Microsoft Word into the editor in the universal GUI, excessive and unnecessary metadata is included. This metadata should be stripped by the editor, since this makes the field really big in the database.
In the Windows GUI this was better.
How can this be solved?
Best answer by martijngaasbeek
Just to clearify: This is according to the TinyCME I use not the default behaviour. On the left side you see the source within TinyCME 6.X (same version as you are using ) and on the right side you see the output of the universal GUI that is inserted into the database:
Our workaround now is to let it process through another TinyCME implementation, get the raw HTML and insert that into the database manually.
So yes, there is always some word related content, but not the XML data of word.
To make the problem more clear:
The following text in word is saved as 141kb of data in the database:
Good day
I can imagine that this behavior would not be ideal in some situations, it is by design and aligns with how similar tools handle content copied from Word.
A potential workaround is to paste the content as plain text using Ctrl + Shift + V, which removes the extra metadata. Would this work for you as a solution?
Hi
Thanks for your response. But why is it an intended use?
My reasons why it should not be an intended use:
Your solution with Ctrl + Shift + V removes all the styling so even lists are shown behind each other instead of below each other:
Looking forward to your response!
Hi
To elaborate on the statement made; we are utilizing a third-party component TinyMCE, where the default behavior, as many other rich editors too, is to often preserve Word formatting to maintain visual fidelity.
I took some time to run through some scenarios, thanks to the additional information that you supplied, and I have determined that there is indeed a major difference between the Universal GUI and Windows GUI regarding what data gets preserved.
Please raise a ticket for this issue so that further action can be taken.
Just to clearify: This is according to the TinyCME I use not the default behaviour. On the left side you see the source within TinyCME 6.X (same version as you are using ) and on the right side you see the output of the universal GUI that is inserted into the database:
Our workaround now is to let it process through another TinyCME implementation, get the raw HTML and insert that into the database manually.
So yes, there is always some word related content, but not the XML data of word.
To make the problem more clear:
The following text in word is saved as 141kb of data in the database:
Thank you for the additional clarification, I am confident this will come in handy to the next person exploring potential solutions.
Can I ask that you please provide this context when you raise a ticket for this.
+3This issue has been resolved in Universal version 2025.2.11.0.
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