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Rachel & Vu, I've pasted all the screen shots documenting the problem above into a Word doc. I don't want to post it but would be okay to send it .
(not for general distribution)... – BDK, on May 05, 2008 21:28

I was typing my response for the longes time. But to summarize:
Exactly what BDK said!

The odd thing is that I cannot reproduce right now. Did anyone change something?

IE 7.0.5730.11
All I can tell you is that it always happens to me. I have about 500+ pages on 12 wikis now and this is what i expect when I am copying from Word.

Hey BDK - this seems very unusual - I've never had this happen to me. What browser are you using? And thanks for all the information! – Rachel Pennig, on May 05, 2008 19:57

This happens all the time to me, as well. In version 1, when you are copying and pasting from Word, a dialog box pops up giving explicit instructions to paste your text into the dialog box. There are 2 check boxes that allow you to remove font definitions and style definitions. Irrespective of whether you check the boxes or not, the pasted text is ALWAYS pasted at the top of the wiki page.
Rachel - it's not about floating as much as pasting two paragraphs from Document A then wanting to add a paragraph from document B immediately following (but it ends up at the top of the page).
I just cut and paste, then highlight the text at the top of the page and cut and paste again. The second time, you don't get the dialog box because the text isn't coming from Word.

Hint: what's worked for me is to ALWAYS check the remove font and remove style definition boxes and paste clean, unformatted text into the wiki page, then use the wiki tools to format. Otherwise, you often cannot delete Word formatting without going to the source code.

I can't reproduce this issue myself, so if you can give us any clues, such as screenshots or a more detailed walk-through of the bug, that'd be great. Thanks!

hi sjtechie- can you explain what you mean by the text asking you to "clean it." Do you have information on your page that you'd like to insert the text between, or are you trying to get it to float in the middle of the page?
Hope to hear from you soon!