PHP to clean-up pasted Microsoft input

Question

I have a site where users can post stuff (as in forums, comments, etc) using a customised implementation of TinyMCE. A lot of them like to copy & paste from Word, which

Answer 1

In my case, this worked just fine:

$text = strip_tags($text, '
');

Rather than trying to pull out stuff you don't want such as embedded word xml, you can just specify you're allowed tags.