Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-34634711-20151018123754/@comment-24668482-20151022083315

You can try using the classic editor and see if the copy/past works better there. There is a small arrow next to the edit button that brings up a menu, the top option is 'classic' editor. It is the original visual editor, it isn't as fancy as the new one but sometimes it is easier to manipulate pages because of that. The tables work much better in classic (they have only recently been supported by the new visual editor, eventually they will be great but just not quite there yet).

In either editor you can also switch to source mode and will see exactly how the red text gets there (it is just basic inline css, a really bad habit as I should probably just being fine tuning the global css page instead to allow for these things). Source mode can take a bit of getting used to if not familiar with wikitext, and it isn't for everyone, but once you are used to it it makes editing very fast and easy.

I'd say 90% of the time I open classic visual editor when editing instead of pressing the edit button and getting the new visual editor. The other 10% of time I actually want the new ease of some of new features so use the new visual editor instead. Either way I am constantly switching between source and visual when I have either editor open, and I'd say I spend much more time in source than I do in visual, but I find both useful. For tables I always make and format them in source, but when adding things later I use visual as they are so long in source it can be hard to find the cell you are looking for. Out of habit, I always use the classic visual editor if it is a table I want to add something though. That is mostly left over from when tables were not supported in the new visual editor, but also because the new visual editor doesn't like the really really long tables (the lists of collections etc.) so I have to use classic for those.

Of course that is just what works for me, and other people will find that new visual editor is what works best for everything. I'd say you will find a system that works for you quickly enough. And I should say, thanks very much for taking the time to edit and add content. Not many people do, and I really appreciate it someone does.