Cannot paste text into post
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When writing a new post and pasting either plain text or text from a Word doc into the post box on the Write Post page the post will not save or publish. Yet if I type directly into the post box the text does save and publish without fail. I have had this problem for the last 15 hours, but have never experienced it in the past. I am using a Mac and tried both Firefox and Safari browsers, only to yield the same unsatisfactory results.
What is going on?
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Aside from the fact that you shouldn’t paste from Word (if it hasn’t caused problems for you yet, it will), you’re the second person in recent hours reporting a paste problem:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=31238&replies=4
The problem there is different from yours, but I wonder if there’s a glitch in the editor itself. Have you tried pasting from Wordpad or another text editor?
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Have you tried pasting it into the blog using the HTML editor instead of the Visual editor? That’ll also prevent all the problems normally associated with Word.
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Maybe my answer is too simple…copy everything in your Word Document by using Ctrl + C and paste into the blog space by using Ctrl + V.
I haven’t actually tried this between a Word Doc & WordPress…but good luck :)
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If your having problems with a .doc file save it as a .txt file in Word. Copy and paste from the .txt file. It works for me.
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None of these suggestions worked when I tried them before posting this topic. I even tried saving the text in different text editors before copying it into the Write Post page. Nothing works. This is a recent phenomenon, I have never had this problem before 2 days ago.
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Then you will need to report it to staff tomorrow. You won’t be alone. Hopefully they’ll fix it.
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I have found same problem recently. I have used the “paste from word” button for ages, with no problems, but now the text comes with a load of stuff like pasted below, which mucks about with the formatting. I go into html editor and remove it, but it’s kind of annoying.
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Word uses a lot of extra formatting codes that can cause problems when converted to HTML. We do not recommend writing your posts in Word.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/If you would like to write your posts locally, I would suggest using something like Windows Live Writer, which can publish directly to your blog.
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This is an issue only with Mac platforms it seems. I finally did copy and paste successfully but when using a PC. As of this writing I cannot copy and paste or even upload images using a Mac. Very strange indeed.
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