Formatting of blog

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  aviesplace2012 · Member · Apr 17, 2013 at 5:09 pm

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  When I write my blog and set it to preview, the spaces between the paragraphs are not showing. I have cleared the cache and cookies and am still having this problem. If I post it this way all the blog runs together. Can you help me with this, please?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 17, 2013 at 5:10 pm

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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://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. 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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  aviesplace2012 · Member · Apr 17, 2013 at 5:33 pm

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  That took care of the problem! Thank you so much!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 17, 2013 at 6:03 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog.

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  jmuntamed · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 1:07 pm

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  My style is set to paragraph, I used the hitting enter twice and then tried the shift + enter and nothing has worked. This poem, http://creativityuntamed.com/2013/04/22/continue/ is supposed to have three lines per stanza and I cannot get the stanza’s to show.

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  justpi · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 1:49 pm

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  Your style is set to paragraph, but your paragraphs contain extraneous coding, probably because you copypasted the content from Word or something like that. To clear things up, edit the post, select all in the Visual editor, copy, switch to Text (=code), select all, paste, then delete the blank lines you don’t want and click Update.
  In the future, never copypaste from other sources into the Visual editor: when you need to paste, paste into the Text editor.