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Major wordpress issues in mozilla browser

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aatifrashid
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I have been using wordpress for a number of years now, mainly in Chrome.

I had been repeatedly adviced to adopt firefox because it kept you from Google's prying eyes.

I took the advice onboard and ran into a whole heap of issues...

1. In chrome I used to copy and past content from MSWord directly into wordpress and the layout, hyperlinks everything carried over perfectly.

2. In Firefox it only comes across in "plain text", which means I have to manually realligne my paragraphs and enter any hyperlinks which also havent been carried over. I get this message: "Your browser does not support direct access to the clipboard. Please use keyboard shortcuts or your browser’s edit menu instead".

Can someone please help me before I lose the plot!

I have been using wordpress for a number of years now, mainly in Chrome. I had been repeatedly adviced to adopt firefox because it kept you from Google's prying eyes. I took the advice onboard and ran into a whole heap of issues... 1. In chrome I used to copy and past content from MSWord directly into wordpress and the layout, hyperlinks everything carried over perfectly. 2. In Firefox it only comes across in "plain text", which means I have to manually realligne my paragraphs and enter any hyperlinks which also havent been carried over. I get this message: "Your browser does not support direct access to the clipboard. Please use keyboard shortcuts or your browser’s edit menu instead". Can someone please help me before I lose the plot!

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firefoxbob2
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Hi aatifrashid, I am sorry to hear that you are having problems moving website content from Microsoft word to WordPress. I have tried copying a sentence from Microsoft Word 2013 with a hyperlink to the WordPress editor with Firefox 36.0.1. I copied it by pressing the CTRL key and the C key at the same time. Then I went to the WordPress editor and pasted it in by pressing the CTRL key and the V key. This put everything in, even the hyperlink. Just to make sure that everything was working right I pulled up the preview page to see if the hyperlink was still there. It was there even in the preview. Can you give me some more information on how you attempted to copy and paste into WordPress? For example did you select everything in Word and right click on it and right click in WordPress and then click paste?

aatifrashid
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I usually right click the mouse to copy and paste.

Mind you, I have just tried you method....CTRL+C and then V and it pastes absolutely fine :)

Many thanks...

PS i would have thought copying and pasting via the mouse would perform the same function as if you were to do it via the keyboard....!

I suppose I will have adopt the keyboard route.

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cor-el
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Don't the keyboard shortcuts work?

Use keyboard shortcuts if the buttons on the web page or other methods aren't working.

  • Copy: Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert (Mac: Command + C)
  • Paste: Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert (Mac: Command + V)
  • Cut: Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete (Mac: Command + X)

Does it work in a contentEditable window like this:

Copy and paste this code in the location bar to open an Edit window in a tab. 

data:text/html,<html><head><title>EDIT</title></head><body onload="document.body.contentEditable='true';" height="99%" width="100%"></body></html>