Remove empty paragraphs when pasting from Word

[marcellofuschi]

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How the feature works now and what you'd like to change?

When you paste from Word a text which has paragraphs separated by empty paragraphs, the editor retains those empty paragraphs while applying margin to all of them. This means the (real) paragraphs are spaced more than intended because on Word paragraphs have 0 margin by default.

Here's a video showing the current wrong behaviour:

screen_recording.mp4

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[LukaszGudel]

Hello, thank you for your suggestion but I'm afraid that the feature that you are describing might cause unexpected behaviour for other users that would like to preserve empty paragraphs when pasting from other sources like Word.

Please, bear in mind that content you see inside the editor is presented as HTML and you can simply create a css rule to remove those margins or change line-height value on <p> tags if you need to match your content with Word document visually.

Please, let me know if my suggestion is fixing your issue.

[marcellofuschi]

I think that there are situations in which we can assume a Word user does not need to preserve empty paragraphs when pasting from Word, because when you intend to create a new paragraph in Word you're actually not creating two of them but three, using one of them to separate the two.
Since the user just wanted to add a new paragraph (instead of going to a new line in the same one) they can't be aware that they created an empty paragraph in between the two. Hence, they wouldn't expect that empty paragraph to appear after the paste from Word to the editor.

If you try Medium's editor with the same Word file that I used in the video (in the first post), you can see that they remove the empty paragraph when you paste the content.

[marcellofuschi]

Hi! Any updates on this?

[jswiderski]

This is something to check but perhaps instead of removing, style retention will solve this problem - #10577

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