Can you troubleshoot my video and text please?

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  sdyer44 · Member · Dec 15, 2011 at 5:27 pm

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  Hi.
  I’m having a few problems with my blog.
  1. I’m trying to upload a video. I have done this before and all is fine. For some reason this particular one doesn’t respond when I do all the usual things. The html is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJQ2Hkzizww
  Is there something I’m not doing?
  It remains as a line of text even though I have ‘unlinked it’ as you suggest.
  2. When I copy from word into the edit box the formatting of the text size seems to have a mind of its own. Even if I attempt to change it in wordpress it frequently comes out as different sizes.
  How can I keep the size and style of font the same / change it and keep the changes on the blog page?

  Many thanks,

  Seex
  Blog url: http://rattledrum.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 16, 2011 at 12:38 am

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  We really don’t recommend copying from Word, for all of the reasons mentioned above.

  In this case, the video’s URL was wrapped in span tags, which breaks the embed. Those are gone now.

  Word processors contain tons of proprietary formatting that we can’t account for. If you truly must past from Word (as opposed to writing it in our visual editor), please follow this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/