First of all. Thank you so much! I'm very excited to see Absolute Write up and running again. I'm sure there will be little issues here and there, and I'm sure they won't matter in the long run.
Now, when it comes to pasting from Word, there's only one way to find out. Let’s try pasting something:
Here we go with italics and bold and bold italics.
This is a heading
And this is a newline with “normal spacing.”
There should be a line between this and the last line/paragraph (Most software doesn’t get this right)
And now I’ve switched to “No spacing.”
And there should be a line between this and the last line.
Let’s try times new Roman font size 11. And now font size 8. And now font size 18.
Okay now let’s try a bullet list:
One
Two
Three
And finally colored text: red, green, blue.
So, interesting results. One, it likes normal spacing, rather than no spacing. Which is quite odd, but I like it. Two, it picks up on headings. Three, it doesn't pick up on fonts, font sizes, bullets, or colored text.
The biggest issue I can see (with pasting from Word) is posting LBLs in share your work, since those are usually color coded. I'm sure there's a way to make this all work. I'll go off and experiment (in a less visible thread.)