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  barbaracarole · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 10:07 pm

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  I’ve been trying to edit my most recent post to put a space between paragraphs, or even to indent the first line of paragraphs. It does not change. How do I edit and make it stick?

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  barbaracarole · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 10:07 pm

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  I’ve been trying to edit my most recent post to put a space between paragraphs, or even to indent the first line of paragraphs. It does not change. How do I edit and make it stick?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 10:08 pm

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  If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD please read this https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-paste-as-word-button-has-been-removed-from-the-visual-editor?replies=3

  Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
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  Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see:
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/

  See also: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

  P.S. When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 19, 2014 at 10:10 pm

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  or even to indent the first line of paragraphs

  If that’s what you want to do then you will have to learn how to use the HTML Text editor and code in every indent on every paragraph on every posts and page before publishing it. See here, under “Single line indents” and “First line indents”

  Formatting text pt. 2: indents and blockquotes