Copying text from a Word document to a page on my blog

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    andreamgwilliams · Member ·

    I have been posting to my blog now for several weeks now and all of the sudden I am having trouble copying and pasting from a Word document onto a page on my blog. I have bullets set up and they are not converting the same way once I paste into the page. Can you please assist?

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    amightywp · Member ·

    Hi there,

    We actually do not recommend that you copy and paste content from Word in to your blog. The code which is carried over from a Word document can cause major errors to appear on your blog.

    Here’s some information that we’ve put together about the subject:

    Microsoft Word

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    andreamgwilliams · Member ·

    Thank you for your help. I can certainly stop copying and pasting but now I will need help in learning how to create bullets. I know how to do the first set but how do you get them to do a second set?
    Example:
    Here are a few thoughts:
    * XXXXX
    * YYYYY

    How do you get the bullet for the Y line?

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    andreamgwilliams · Member ·

    The Y line is supposed to be indented more.

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    amightywp · Member ·

    If you would like to have a bulleted list, then you might need to enter some simple HTML code in the text tab of your editor (by default, you see the visual editor, but you can switch between the visual editor and the code it creates by clicking the text tab just above the editing window).

    So in the Text Editor, when you want to create your list, you can do so by entering the following:

    <ul>
<li>Item 1
<li>Item 2
<li>Item 3
</ul>

    The “ul” part means “unordered list” (so bullet points). Ordered list would mean a numbered list (1, 2, 3).

    Then the “li” means “list item”.

    You just need to remember to put it in just like that and it will work for you!

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