Font changes when copied from OpenOffice to WordPress
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On my blog “Around the World in the Kitchen” for months I would type it in OpenOffice then copy and paste it to my dashboard. I used Ariel 14 font in OpenOffice and it transferred over to WordPress just fine. Now the font either pastes in Italics or a different font size and style and I cannot figure out how to change it though I’ve tried several times. I’ve quit making posts because my blog is going to have a whole new appearance that I don’t like and I don’t know how to fix it. This has been very frustrating for me. Can you help?
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The result of copy and pasting from Open Office into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for posting clean code.
Note you need to click the kitchen sink icon #15 at the end of Row 1 to have Row 2 appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-1
In Row 2 use icon 5 – paste as plain text in the Visual editor.
Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
_ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
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All themes are theme is coded to use specific fonts. If you wish to use the Text (HTML) editor for each and every posts and page you can change the font within the body of posts and pages.
Note: These are 3 ways to change fonts on wordpress.com blogs.
(1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/formatting-text-pt-5/(2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2
(3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/
Custom Design – Frequently Asked Questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
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Sorry! I’m visally challenged and having a bad vision day.
I meant type:
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I tried your first suggestion of pasting as plain text and it didn’t work. It still pasted the text in a different font and size, which totally changes the appearance of my blog. I will check out your other suggestions. I appreciate your help!
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By definition pasting as plain text strips formatting and the font family is what is built into the theme – it’s the extra html that can blow up a blog completely with strange formatting
You can also try Windows Live Writer (PC) or Eckto (sp? MAC) – you can format your post then WLW will upload to your blog –
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Even when OpenOffice produces the result you want, it creates a lot of redundant code. You can do it more neatly by pasting the text into the Text editor instead of the Visual, then paste this at the very beginning:
<div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:150%;">
and this at the very end:
</div>
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