What's important to know? Your existing site (or content found in a Word document) may be using different fonts than the standard fonts found in Plone. When you copy and paste from Word or from your existing website, some formatting also gets copied along with the text. It's your job to remove the existing formatting of your content before pasting it into Plone. This is done in three steps:

1. You must first convert your content to Plain Text. To do this, copy some content using CRTL+C. Open Notepad and paste (CRTL+V) the content into Notepad.
2. Copy the same content again out of Notepad.
3. Paste the content from Notepad into Plone.
   
   

To copy content, simply highlight (click and drag the mouse pointer over the area you wish to copy) the text you want and push CTRL+C or right-click and choose Copy.

You'll probably notice that the spacing between paragraphs may have changed a bit. There isn't really a way around this, so you'll need to do some tidying up. Other formatting such as bold, italics, or numbered and bulleted lists may need to be re-created using the editing tools found in Plone.

It may seem like these are limitations of Plone, but in fact it's being picky to help you out. If you don't convert to plain text first, some HTML can find its way onto your site (such as table formatting) that can make things display strangely and requires editing the HTML to remove.
 

Things to remember:

• Links will not copy. The web address of the link is probably going to be different on your new site anyway.
  
• Images will not copy. Images must be saved to your desktop computer first, then uploaded to Plone.
• Fonts will not copy. Plone converts all fonts to a one standard, widely supported font. Using the text editor in Plone, you can override the standard font with styles available in the style menu.