People like to avoid SharePoint 2010’s Rich Text and Enhanced Rich Text editors until they find out they can paste in their Word document.

This can be a problem for people that want to reuse the content, because Word’s HTML/XML formatting comes with zillions of custom styles and cleaning up these styles by hand can take forever.

Here’s a JavaScript function with Regular Expressions that can be used for stripping off the tags automatically:

function CleanWordHTML( str )
{
str = str.replace(/<o:p>\s*<\/o:p>/g, "") ;
str = str.replace(/<o:p>.*?<\/o:p>/g, " ") ;
str = str.replace( /\s*mso-[^:]+:[^;"]+;?/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\s*;/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\s*"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*TEXT-INDENT: 0cm\s*;/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*TEXT-INDENT: 0cm\s*"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*TEXT-ALIGN: [^\s;]+;?"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: [^\s;]+;?"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*FONT-VARIANT: [^\s;]+;?"/gi, "\"" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*tab-stops:[^;"]*;?/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*tab-stops:[^"]*/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*face="[^"]*"/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*face=[^ >]*/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*FONT-FAMILY:[^;"]*;?/gi, "" ) ;
str = str.replace(/<(\w[^>]*) class=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3") ;
str = str.replace( /<(\w[^>]*) style="([^\"]*)"([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3" ) ;
str = str.replace( /\s*style="\s*"/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*[^>]*>\s* \s*<\/SPAN>/gi, ' ' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*[^>]*><\/SPAN>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace(/<(\w[^>]*) lang=([^ |>]*)([^>]*)/gi, "<$1$3") ;
str = str.replace( /<SPAN\s*>(.*?)<\/SPAN>/gi, '$1' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<FONT\s*>(.*?)<\/FONT>/gi, '$1' ) ;
str = str.replace(/<\\?\?xml[^>]*>/gi, "") ;
str = str.replace(/<\/?\w+:[^>]*>/gi, "") ;
str = str.replace( /<H\d>\s*<\/H\d>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<H1([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<H2([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<H3([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<H4([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<H5([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<H6([^>]*)>/gi, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<\/H\d>/gi, '<br>' ) ; //remove this to take out breaks where Heading tags were
str = str.replace( /<(U|I|STRIKE)> <\/\1>/g, ' ' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<(B|b)> <\/\b|B>/g, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<([^\s>]+)[^>]*>\s*<\/\1>/g, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<([^\s>]+)[^>]*>\s*<\/\1>/g, '' ) ;
str = str.replace( /<([^\s>]+)[^>]*>\s*<\/\1>/g, '' ) ;
//some RegEx code for the picky browsers
var re = new RegExp("(<P)([^>]*>.*?)(<\/P>)","gi") ;
str = str.replace( re, "<div$2</div>" ) ;
var re2 = new RegExp("(<font|<FONT)([^*>]*>.*?)(<\/FONT>|<\/font>)","gi") ;
str = str.replace( re2, "<div$2</div>") ;
str = str.replace( /size|SIZE = ([\d]{1})/g, '' ) ;
return str ;
}