WYSIWYG Enhanced Editor for posting RTF text

[MDawg]

I have WYSIWYG enhanced editor properly enabled for all registered users.

What my users want to do isn't fancy - they write very long posts, using MSFT WORD, and want to copy and paste them into the editor window, and have the formatting and font styles (italic, underlined, etc.) remain intact.

It seems that even if the document is saved in RTF, when copied and pasted into the editor window, all formatting is lost - italicized text disappears, indenting in paragraphs gone, and spacing between paragraphs gone.

Paragraph spacing is via the 10 pt spacing default between paragraphs.

Anyway, the way it looks in RTF is not the way it looks after being pasted into the window.

Most of my users are running MAC OSX, Firefox 3 browser.

[Jake Bunce]

Make sure they have enabled WYSIWYG in their preferences:

User CP -> Edit Options -> Message Editor Interface

You can set the default for new registrations in your:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> User Registration Options -> Default Registration Options

You can mass update the preferences of exsiting users in your:

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Execute SQL Query

There is a menu with predefined queries. You must have permission to execute queries in your includes/config.php file:

// ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
// The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
// See the above entries for more information on the format.
// Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
// to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '';

And make sure WYSIWYG is enabled here:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Posting Interface Options -> Enable Clickable Message Formatting Controls

Also try a different browser. Not all browsers support WYSIWYG.

[MDawg]

I've done all that.

The only other browser I have is Safari, and on that one, the enhanced WYSIWYG editor doesn't even show up.

On Firefox it does, and java is enabled, which makes me wonder what the issue is....

[MDawg]

I've been back and forth with tech support on this.

They wrote:

If you use the Enhanced editor (aka WYSIWYG) then you can copy and paste rich text into your post and it will preserve the formatting within the limits of BB code.

I have been unable to make this happen for me, at least for a MAC user running Firefox.

I create RTF documents. I copy and paste them from one program to another (for example, from MSFT WORD to Apple Pages or to a simple TextEditor). Formatting remains, so formatting is definitely being carried over via the copy/paste function.

However, this is not happening when I copy and paste into the WYSIWYG enhanced editor on a MAC/Firefox.

Anyone?