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# Pasting content

When copying content into your website, you're most likely copying it from Microsoft Word.  This can cause a lot of additional, unwanted hidden markup to be copied across into your website.

While GovCMS can be configured by your developers to remove most of the problematic styles and issues automatically, some may still appear.

This can cause visual inconsistencies, as it overrides your website's fonts and colours.

As a Content Author, you have a number of ways to solve this issue.

### Paste via Notepad

Copy your content out of Word and into a no-format editor such as Notepad, and copy it again from there before pasting it into your website.

Notepad will strip out a word processor's formatting and styling, and leave you with clean text.

This will also remove headings, lists and links, so may require more manual clean up after the pasting, but it will result in cleaner and consistently formatted text.

### Clean paste

Rather than simply pasting content using Ctrl + V, include the shift or command keys:

* **Windows**: Ctrl + Shift + V
* **Mac**: Cmd + Shift + V

This will paste your text without any additional styles.

### Remove format icon/button

For text that's already in your website and needs to cleaned up, you can select your text and then click the **remove format** icon:

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This approach is not always the cleanest, as there may be hidden content that isn't selected.


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