# Need Help Formatting Posts from Microsoft Word
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-formatting-posts-from-microsoft-word/26232
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 11, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-formatting-posts-from-microsoft-word/26232 "2015-03-11T20:04:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Aaron\_Seminoff](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_Seminoff)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-formatting-posts-from-microsoft-word/26232/1 "2015-03-11T20:04:27Z")
Hey there,
I started using discourse about a month ago and need help formatting posts. Whenever I copy & paste text into a new post from word it automatically formats it with weird linebreaks. I’m sure this is an easy fix but I haven’t been able to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated!
I tried to post a photo but it won’t let me since I’m a new user.
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### Author:  [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-formatting-posts-from-microsoft-word/26232/2 "2015-03-11T22:14:36Z")
Word does some … unfriendly things and this is, in my experience, a common issue using Word to Draft things for the web.
You could try copying it in here then pasting it into your post form:
[http://www.tim-jarrett.com/labs\_javascript\_scrub\_word.php](http://www.tim-jarrett.com/labs_javascript_scrub_word.php)
note: totally unaffiliated - came up on a search for “microsoft html scrubber”
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-formatting-posts-from-microsoft-word/26232/3 "2015-03-12T00:30:35Z")
I suggest you take a look at
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-answer-questions-about-markdown-formatting-from-my-users/25133](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-me-answer-questions-about-markdown-formatting-from-my-users/25133)
@tobiaseigen and others had some good ideas there.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-formatting-posts-from-microsoft-word/26232/4 "2015-03-12T00:30:45Z")