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  djvthewriter · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 11:06 pm

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  Why can’t you set up the blog so one can copy and paste something from their word doc. or other source in the bloggers site?:

  Your suggestion of ‘Please use Ctrl+V/Cmd+V keyboard shortcuts to paste contents’ is not consumer friendly!!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 11:19 pm

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  Have you read the Microsoft WORD support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/ ?

  Have you also read Microsoft OneDrive Word Web App https://en.support.wordpress.com/word-web-app/?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 11:23 pm

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  Microsoft Word includes a lot of junk code and that’s why using Microsoft LiveWriter is preferred. https://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/

  For copying and pasting from Microsoft WORD.

  If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed last year. 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

  Go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  http://djvthewriter.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php

  The bottom line is that 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.