Copy and Paste??

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  dklineg · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 2:56 pm

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  I’m trying to copy from a document and paste it into my new post. It worked once and then will not paste on subsequent tries. What can I do. I don’t want to retype everything.

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  stothek · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 4:50 pm

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  That’s kind of strange since copy/paste is native to your computer/tablet. Are these different documents so you’re copying each time, or are you trying to copy once and paste multiple times?

  If you’re trying to paste again, it might just be you have to go back and select the text and then paste again.

  If you’re on a PC or Mac, did you right click or use keyboard keys to paste (ctrl-P or command-P)? If you used one method try the other. For some reason I’ve seen one method work when another one won’t.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 5:38 pm

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  If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed from the editor months ago. If you use the Paste as plain text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

  Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

  P.S. When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.