exporting content in a reading format to use in a book I am writing

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    purpleborough · Member ·

    I downloaded my content but it is in xml format and I cannot read all this garble. I would like to be able to read the post in a chronological way to use in a book I am writing

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    sayali29 · Member ·

    Hi there,

    The export option is an .xml file, but that’s a machine-readable file, and not something you can open and edit in Word.

    If you’d like your posts to be on your computer as Word documents, you have two options.

    1) Manually copy-paste them from your site into Word.

    2) Use a service like FastPencil.com or Blogbooker.com to convert the WordPress.com export file into a PDF, which you should them be able to import and convert into a Word document.

    Hope above helps !

    Regards,
    Sayali

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    purpleborough · Member ·

    Thank you. Neither site worked.
    Fast Pencil does not convert from xml to Pdf
    Bookblogger would not accept my dates to upload. I received an error message.
    Manual I suppose is the only way to go and that is realy a pain since I have been writing since 2005.

    Any other suggestions?

    Thank you

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    purpleborough · Member ·

    Wordpress could certainly fix this if they wanted to do so. My son was a programmer. I suppose the Happiness Engineers are not as smart as I wish them to be or they just want it to be hard to download our content.

    I have wasted all morning on this when I could have been more constructive

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