I am not a huge fan of Microsoft even though I do make use of the company’s products regularly.  I have XP running on my Macbook Pro for browser testing.  I regularly make use of the Office suite.  I also have a few Microsoft games that I play on a regular basis.  The long and short is, I am a fan of open-source.

Yesterday was a strange day.  My brother Alec asked about online and offline HTML editors for Drupal and through the conversation it came out that he uses Live Writer for his personal blog.  Then later, at work, I was talking with a client who has a CMS that is really repository for Word docs.  There is the desire to move the content from these Word documents into Drupal without losing formatting.

FCKeditor was one option that came to mind.  It will allow you to cut and paste from Word.  This works fairly well.  It retains much of the formatting, but perhaps doesn’t quite echo the desktop experience that was desired.