<commit_before>---
title: Clean MS Word Formatting 
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description: Clean MS Word Formatting 
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# Clean MS Word Formatting 

This article explains how **RadEditor** handles content pasted from MS Word, and what built-in mechanisms are available to control the pasting behavior.

**RadEditor** provides a number of tools that help users paste formatted text from MS Word, which, as a result is cleaned from unnecessary tags, comments and MS-Word-specific style formatting attributes.

>note As of IE11, Microsoft have included a built-in mechanism that handles the HTML formatting when pasting MS Word content. Due to that, **RadEditor** has minor control over the MS Word content pasted under Internet Explorer 11.You can find more details about the browser dependency when pasting in the **RadEditor** in the [Pasting in RadEditor]({%slug editor/managing-content/pasting-content/overview%}) article.

>caption Figure 1: MS Word content is pasted as proper HTML markup in the RadEditor.

![pasting-in-editor](images/pasting-in-editor.png)<commit_msg>docs(editor): fix a broken link<commit_after>---
title: Clean MS Word Formatting 
page_title: Clean MS Word Formatting  | RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX Documentation
description: Clean MS Word Formatting 
slug: editor/managing-content/pasting-content/clean-ms-word-formatting-
tags: clean,ms,word,formatting,
published: True
position: 1
---

# Clean MS Word Formatting 

This article explains how **RadEditor** handles content pasted from MS Word, and what built-in mechanisms are available to control the pasting behavior.

**RadEditor** provides a number of tools that help users paste formatted text from MS Word, which, as a result is cleaned from unnecessary tags, comments and MS-Word-specific style formatting attributes.

>note As of IE11, Microsoft have included a built-in mechanism that handles the HTML formatting when pasting MS Word content. Due to that, **RadEditor** has minor control over the MS Word content pasted under Internet Explorer 11.You can find more details about the browser dependency when pasting in the **RadEditor** in the [Pasting in RadEditor](https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/editor/managing-content/pasting-content/overview) article.

>caption Figure 1: MS Word content is pasted as proper HTML markup in the RadEditor.

![pasting-in-editor](images/pasting-in-editor.png)
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