Formatting lost when Blogging from Word2010

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    duraiyarasan · Member ·

    Hi There,
    I would like to write my blogs using Word2010 or latest. The main reason is to save the nice formats provided by Word editor. I was able to post my blogs from Word2010 (& also WLW 2012). I have setup wordpress blog in word & WLW as well.

    The problem I am facing is, after I publish from Word2010 the word formating is lost. Formatting such as table size, Spacing after new line. etc.

    Currently I am using FreeTheme – NewsWorthy. How can I get the word formatting preserved – is it part of any upgrades?

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    timethief · Member ·

    This is not an upgrade issue at all.

    You are copying and pasting from Microsoft WORD but failing to do that in the correct manner. Microsoft Word is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

    Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
    Formatting
    _ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
    “save changes”

    I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/

    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://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/

    If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.

    If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.

    Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/

    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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    auxclass · Member ·

    I tried the direct upload from Word about a year ago. Went through the config stuff and made a couple of test posts that turned out poorly formatted – went back to WLW – or I paste in using the instructions above from @TT

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    For the love of god use Windows Live Writer instead. It works like Word except…it works.

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