Editing problems old and new
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(1) I’m having paragraph break problems again on my “About” page (with the Mission Statement post)even though I deleted the old (IE6)version and posted (and re-posted) using Firefox 2.something. Seaching the Forums I found lots of similar problems from last Feb and March, so has the problem been fixed?
(2) The New-York Historical Society puts a hyphen in between “New” and “York” in its name, so I have corrected my post, but the hyphen won’t stay put in the tag. As blog problems go it’s not a big deal, but can it be fixed?
TIA
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1) If you would like spaces to be between the paragraphs, go into the editor and hit the Enter/Return key after each paragraph.
2) “New York” and “New-York” are both treated the same for tags, so “New York” is used.
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Today I hit the Enter key on my keyboard twice every time I wanted to make a paragraph break and it looked fine in the editing box so I hit Save, but the spacing closed up every time. When the text editor is working correctly, hitting the Enter key automatically makes a paragraph space without clicking twice, but today it only jumped to the next line.
Is there some setting that I should know about? Why does it sometimes work correctly and sometimes not? BTW, I’m not cutting and pasting from Word or anywhere else, and I’m not using Explorer.
I thought that this problem had been resolved when I changed browsers so today’s relapse is very disappointing.
Thanks for the New York/New-York answer.
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@buyathread, When in the editor, with the extended tool bar open, look at the style pulldown at the left end of the bottom row and make sure it says “paragraph”. If not, select all the text in your post and then from the pulldown select “paragraph”. I was initially having this problem and after I did that on one post, I haven’t had the problem since.
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I’ve looked at your about page, and from what I see
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"/>I can tell it was pasted in from MS Word (MsoNormal is the “normal” class for Microsoft Office. Pasting from Word will mess you up every time as it knows next to nothing about HTML. It inserts all sorts of code that breaks things.You are going to have open all posts and pages you have used Word on and copy it all out from the editor window, delete everything in the editor window, and then paste it back in using the “paste from Word” button on the extended tool bar (white square with a “W” on it).
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This is not a facetious question but are there MS Word ghosts?
I ask because this morning I deleted all of the Mission Statement text because it was missing paragraph breaks. What I deleted (and Saved) may or may not have been cut and pasted from Word.
But the new version — what is there now — was typed by me, personally, twice (b/c I forgot to Save the first time). So where is the Mso stuff coming from?
Just tried the “paragraph” suggestion. It didn’t work but I’m glad to know about it for the future.
So is there residual, invisible, code? toxic waste? whatever? even though I deleted the old text?
Now I will try the “paste from Word” button, even though the new text has not been pasted from Word, or from anywhere else.
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My suggestion for the about page is to delete the page entirely and make another one rather than just deleting the stuff and then typing it back in. Yes, there could have been some residual code that was left in there.
What you can do, is copy all the stuff out of the about page and then paste it into a plain text editor such as notepad (make sure it is set to save as plain text), and then when you get ready to paste it back in, use the paste as plain text button on the extended (lower) toolbar (white square with a “T” in it. That should insure that no strange code ends up in your page. As a final check, switch over to html view and look for the code I listed above. It shouldn’t be there.
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The “paste from Word” button didn’t do the job so I typed white place holder text to make spaces like some members suggested and it looks ok. It’s a clumsy solution but unless it’s somehow harmful, I’m going to leave the page as is. But if leaving it as is will do damage, then I will make a new page some other time.
Thank you very much for your patience, for the editing bar info, and for the category/tag explanation.
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