I’ve put a new article up in the Codeistry Help section which covers troubleshooting and fixing issues you get copying & pasting code into Wordpress, MODx or other web based systems from Microsoft Word. Just in case anyone else gets caught out by this, here’s the deal:

When you copy & paste from Microsoft Word, into web-based systems like Wordpress or MODx, MS Word tries to bring it’s internal formatting along for the ride. All text in MS Word is styled in some way – fonts, font sizes, alignment, etc… so when you copy & paste it into your CMS, blog or whatever, this formatting comes along too, like an invisible hitch-hiker… See the article for the rest!