[IE11] Paste from word in IE11 displays red flag and replaces some text with '< >'

[oliverh]

When pasting text with 3 levels of ordered lists (numeric, alpha, and roman numerals) some issues occure:

• A red flag appears as part of the first numeric list iteam
• Some text is replaced by '< >'

Steps to reproduce:

1. Copy the text from the attached file
2. Use the "paste from word" functionality to paste into CKEditor

Attached files:

• screenshot showing issue
• Word document containing content that fails 'paste from word'

Spec details

• Browser: IE11 (works perfectly in Chrome)
• OS: Windows 8.1
• CKEditor version: 4.4.6
• Occurs on demo site: yes

[oliverh]

Latest release has partly fixed this issue but issue still around:

• A red flag appears as part of the first numeric list iteam

[oliverh]

Update on issue from further testing:

The latest release has fixed the issue of "missing text"/"text being replaced by < >"

Issues remaining:

1. A red flag appears as part of the first numeric list item
2. <new> Error message appears when 'paste from word' is used with the text from the attached document(CKEditor Failing example 2.docx): "It was not possible to clean up the pasted data due to an internal error"
3. <new> An extra numbered list is created resulting in two 1. showing up when pasting data from attached document (CKEditor Failing example 2.docx) (example screenshot attached: CKEditor Failing example 2.jpeg)

[oliverh]

from further investigation: if we use IE 11 in IE9 or IE10 mode, issue 3 from the previous comment does not seem to occur.

[Jakub Ś]

Please have a look at the HTML code that IE11 sees:

<ol style="list-style-type: decimal; direction: ltr;">
<li style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;'><p style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 1.0cm;'>
<a name="_Ref332021279">
<span lang="EN-AU" style='font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;'>The effluent treatment system and disposal system shall be operated and
maintained to ensure compliance with the conditions of this consent. Operation
and maintenance includes:
</span>
</a>
</p>
</li>
</ol>

That red flag that you see in editor is anchor placeholder (they have to be represented somehow) and this is perfectly fine. CKEditor pasted HTML it gets (with some processing of course).

You need to correct your word file, there is editor error here.

NOTE: Yes, The <> were fixed in CKE 4.5.2.