copy and paste

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    fscory · Member ·

    I can’t seem to take a document and copy and paste it from Libre Office to wordpress. Lazio tried to help. I tried to get classic block to work but I’m obviously doing something wrong. pLease help this old dinosaur, frank

  • aleone89 · Staff ·

    Hello Frank,

    Sorry to hear you’re facing troubles there.

    Can you tell me what steps you’re taking when it comes to pasting the content from Libre Office into the editor please?

    When you paste, what is happening exactly?

    Just for reference, please see this document with regards to the classic block: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/classic-block/

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    fscory · Member ·

    I have copied a document from Office Libre and went to the write page in WordPress. Before I paste, I click on classic format. Then click on paste. The text comes up perfectly but not the photos. I have done this before earlier in the year but now I am missing the photos. please help. Frank

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Thanks @fscory. Did this ever work for you before? I want to say the newer editor will let you paste images even if they’re on your hard drive rather than the web.

    I’m not sure about an entire document with images embedded, though, or whether that would work in the classic block.

    Generally, since the web is very different from paper anyway, I’d encourage folks to paste text but not images, then work on the images within the web editor.

    But, if you’d like to link us to the article in question and let us know what you’re seeing, we’d be happy to take a look.

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    fscory · Member ·

    Dear Supernovia, Yes I have done this before with success. However, the use of classic block gets me the text and leaves room for the images but does not transfer
    tPUENTE DEL ESTE, URUGUAY March 6, 2020
    We boarded our tour bus for the “Highlights of Puenta del Este”, also known as the “St. Tropez of South America.” We were driven through some of the most fashionable residential districts which showed us some beautiful modern homes in this vibrant resort town where the rich and famous like to live. In fact one neighborhood was called “Beverly Hills”.
    Our bus tour stopped at the Ralli Museum of Contemporary Art located
    in a Spanish-style modern building in this fashionable neighborhood.
    We were impressed by paintings and sculptures by some of Latin America’s talented artists, supplemented with European works by Dali and Chagall. As we wandered up and down stairs and also used elevators we were most impressed by “XII Vitrales de Jerusalen” – copies of windows Marc Chagall designed for a temple in Jerusalem, and the sculptures in the outdoor courtyard. Les Museos Ralli are also in Spain, Chile, and 2 in Israel, all with free admission and supporting modern artists and sculptures.
    Our next stop was at the tip of the peninsula in a park that overlooked the waters where the ocean meets the estuary.

    It was named Plazoleta Gran Bretana (Great Britain Square) and situated
    between the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) and the Oceano Atlantico (Atlantic Ocean) at “The Corner of the Four Seas”. It was windy but grassy and we saw the bike tour from our ship arrive with about two dozen riders all wearing yellow vests. There was a helicopter landing in the park and
    workout stations for athletes, also a locked porta-potty.
    We could look across the water to Sea Wolves Island, known locally as Isla de Lobos, which is only accessible by boat, but we didn’t see any of the sea lions that live in the colony on that island. However, when we were waiting for the tender back to our ship we saw sea lions across the water that were swimming between docked boats. People across the way were cleaning off the dock and several of the sea lions flipped themselves out of the water and onto the dock to grab the scraps from fish being cleaned. We watched in awe of how far those huge 200 pound animals could flip themselves up for food.

    Back on our tour bus we passed the 45 meters tall lighthouse (faro) built in 1860 to guide navigation in the Ocean and River.
    Then the bus made two crossings over the hanging bridge commonly called the “Let’s Do It Again Daddy Bridge.” We held our stomachs but no one asked to “Do it Again”.

    We were happy to get off the tour bus at the famous Brava Beach where many people came to see the “Mano de Puerta Este” by the Handartist Mario Irartazabal. He was the winner of an outdoor sculpture contest in 1982.

    The sculpture runners- up seemed more interesting to us; they were less crowded

    and off the beach in a small park we could walk to.

    We crossed a busy street to get to Golero Avenue, the city’s most renowned shopping district and found a little restaurant where we had empanadas: one filled with chicken in tomato sauce and one seafood snack.

    On the way back to the bus we stopped in a crystal shop filled with lovely gems. Stacey wanted to move in and get a job there, but we had to get back to the bus. First we bought a small slice of a stalactite for a souvenir.

    he images.. see below

  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the additional info! I can see it’s been some time since you posted on your blog, and in that time we’ve launched our newer block editor so it will not accept your document pasting as easily.

    In this case you can’t pasted directly into the block editor… it tries to convert all your stuff to blocks. Instead, please try this

    • Create a new post
    • Add the “Classic Block” to your page area
    • paste your document text inside of that block

    This is difficult to explain in words, so I recorded a quick video to show you how to find and add the classic block to your post.

    You can view the at this link: https://d.pr/v/n7D5hi

    If you paste your document into a classic block instead, does it grab your images as before?

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