Paragraphing format in Edit vs Published, copied from PPT

Will Baldwin-Pask

I've been copying text from a MS PowerPoint into Confluence pages, which are having paragraphing issues. When the page is in Edit mode, the text appears as it should:

However, when I Publish the page the text starts to drop onto new lines after random words (below) - this happens throughout the page.

I've copy + pasted from the same PPT into other Confluence pages previously and had no issues, so I'm unsure why it keeps happening on this particular page.

Any advice appreciated!

Andy Gladstone

@Will Baldwin-Pask this issue is more common than you may think. Have you tried pasting the content into a text editor first to see how it is formatted? Often Microsoft Office documents have underlying formatting (since it is a rich text editor) that may cause content to be moved around when saving. I usually check this by pasting the content into Notepad and seeing if the same results happen as you are seeing when you publish. At the time of publishing in Confluence any of that underlying formatting surfaces, resulting in the odd line breaks you are experiencing.