Texts changes to some weird characters when pasting table from Word

[Ugur Ozkan]

Steps to reproduce

1. Copy table from Word (either CTRL + C or right click -> Copy)
2. Open ckEditor Demo from ​http://ckeditor.com/demo
3. Paste it (either use CTRL + V or right click -> Paste or one of the paste buttons above [except the middle one])

Expected result

Same output as seen in the Word

Actual result

Other details (browser, OS, CKEditor version, installed plugins)

OS: Windows 10
CKEditor version: latest version as stated here ​https://dev.ckeditor.com/wiki/Bugs#ReproduceonDemoPageandorNightlyBuild
Browser: Chrome Version 49.0.2623.87 m

[Ugur Ozkan]

Test Input

[Ugur Ozkan]

Interestingly the popup window that appears when clicking one of the paste buttons above shows everything normally.

[Jakub Ś]

This is werid, especially when looking at below HTML from 3 different cells. First one is ok while two others get interpreted as lists although HTML looks the same.

Problem can be reproduced from CKEditor 4.0.1 in Firefox and Chrome. IE works as expected. I also need to add that native contenteditable elements like div and iframe interpret whole table correctly.

  <td width="161" valign="top" style="width:120.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;
  border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
  Calibri;mso-ansi-language:TR;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Ders Adı<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  </td>


  <td width="66" valign="top" style="width:49.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;
  border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
  Calibri;mso-ansi-language:TR;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  </td>


  <td width="57" valign="top" style="width:42.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;
  border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
  padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
  Calibri;mso-ansi-language:TR;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">G<o:p></o:p></span></p>
  </td>

NOTE: When I check format of text entered in cells, I can see they all have "List Paragraph" format and when you assign for example "No spacing" or "Normal", table is pasted correctly. @uguurozkan could you perhaps explain why have you created table content with that sort of formatting in MS Word?

[Ugur Ozkan]

The table is part of a list element. There is some text before it and another list element after it. So, when the table is added, format comes automatically. I added whole test text so you can see.

[Ugur Ozkan]

Whole test text

[Jakub Ś]

Thank you for explanation. You are right table in list gets List Paragraph formatting. That is correct.

Looking at your example however I must say - what you have is not a list but simply paragraphs with numbers in fornt. Please see tableInList.docx file. This is how it should look like and result after pasting is correct (I will get to that in detail in a sec). It is still a mystery, at least to me, how such table can be created (what needs to be clicked in MS WORD) on daily basis.
Having said all that, it is worth looking into this ticket despite, me not knowing how to create such table, since it has worked in CKEditor 4.0.0 .

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The result from my file: List will get pasted as three different lists and this is correct because browser sees this code as:

List Paragraph
List Paragraph
Table
List Paragraph
Table with List Paragraph inside
List Paragraph

Tables have no information that they are part of list, thus browser sees it like shown above and CKEditor interprets it as 3 lists. There is not much we can do in such case.

[Jakub Ś]

Problems mentioned in this ticket can no longer be reproduced in latest CKEditor 4.6.2