How to insert text written in MS Word into your article

Most people use Microsoft Word to compose the content they want to post to their website. The problem is that when you paste text written and formatted in Word all of the funky formatting code from Word comes with it. This will screw up how your text will look on your website.

This tutorial pertains to websites we develop using Joomla! 1.5. The task demonstrated here is done from the "backend" administrator side of the website but can also be done from the front-end of the site.