TinyMCE Paste from Word Plugin

This plugin adds the open-source Paste from Word functionality from the 5.x branch of TinyMCE as a plugin for the 6.x branch. The goal of this project is not to replace the premium PowerPaste plugin, but to allow users who would otherwise stay on the 5.x branch solely for paste-from-word support to upgrade to the 6.x branch.

END-OF-SUPPORT NOTICE

This plugin will not support the 7.x or later branches of TinyMCE due to their licensing changes. Therefore, this repository became READ-ONLY when TinyMCE 6.x support ended in Oct 2024.

Comparison with PowerPaste

Feature	This Plugin	PowerPaste
Automatically cleans up content	✔	✔
Supports embedded images	-	✔
Paste from Microsoft Word	✔	✔
Paste from Microsoft Word online	✔	✔
Paste from Microsoft Excel	-	✔
Paste from Microsoft Excel online	-	-
Paste from Google Docs	✔	✔
Paste from Google Sheets	-	-

Usage

Option 1: CDN Hosted

1. Tell your TinyMCE instance where to load the plugin from and how to configure it:

tinymce.PluginManager.load(
  "paste_from_word",
  "https://unpkg.com/@pangaeatech/tinymce-paste-from-word-plugin@latest/index.js",
);
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea", // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "paste_from_word",
  paste_webkit_styles: "all",
  paste_remove_styles_if_webkit: false,
});

Option 2: Self-Hosted

1. Create a new folder paste_from_word inside of the existing TinyMCE plugins folder.
2. Download the file https://unpkg.com/@pangaeatech/tinymce-paste-from-word-plugin@latest/index.js and add it to that new folder, renaming it plugin.min.js
3. Configure your TinyMCE instance to use the plugin:

tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea", // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "paste_from_word",
  paste_webkit_styles: "all",
  paste_remove_styles_if_webkit: false,
});

Option 3: React (etc.)

The following instructions are for a project using ReactJS and NPM, but you can easily modify these for any other NodeJS-based project.

1. Add the TinyMCE and TinyMCE Paste from Word Plugin projects to your package management:

npx create-react-app tinymce-react-demo
cd tinymce-react-demo
npm install --save @tinymce/tinymce-react @pangaeatech/tinymce-paste-from-word-lib

2. Using a text editor, open ./src/App.js and replace the contents with:

import React from "react";
import { Editor } from "@tinymce/tinymce-react";
import PasteFromWord from "@pangaeatech/tinymce-paste-from-word-lib";

const config = {
  height: 500,
  paste_preprocess: PasteFromWord,
  paste_webkit_styles: "all",
  paste_remove_styles_if_webkit: false,
};

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Editor
      initialValue="<p>This is the initial content of the editor.</p>"
      init={config}
    />
  );
}

Settings

These settings affect the execution of the paste_from_word plugin.

pastefromword_valid_elements

This option enables you to configure the elements specific to MS Office. Word produces a lot of junk HTML, so when users paste things from Word we do extra restrictive filtering on it to remove as much of this as possible. This option enables you to specify which elements and attributes you want to include when Word contents are intercepted.

Type: String

Default Value: "-strong/b,-em/i,-u,-span,-p,-ol,-ul,-li,-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-h6,-p/div,-a[href|name],sub,sup,strike,br,del,table[width],tr,td[colspan|rowspan|width],th[colspan|rowspan|width],thead,tfoot,tbody"

pastefromword_convert_fake_lists

This option lets you disable the logic that converts list like paragraph structures into real semantic HTML lists.

Type: Boolean

Default Value: true

paste_webkit_styles

This plugin is a preprocessor which converts paste content from MS Word into WebKit-style paste content which TinyMCE's built-in paste function can handle. Therefore, it is impacted by the webkit-specific settings of the paste module. In order to prevent the paste module from stripping out all style information, you need to set this to "all" or to a specific list of styles you wish to retain.

Type: String

Default value: "none"

paste_remove_styles_if_webkit

This plugin is a preprocessor which converts paste content from MS Word into WebKit-style paste content which TinyMCE's built-in paste function can handle. Therefore, it is impacted by the webkit-specific settings of the paste module. In order to prevent the paste module from stripping out all style information, you need to set this to false.

Type: Boolean

Default Value: true