gibberish preceding my blog text

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  joannaoftheforest · Member · Jun 30, 2013 at 3:17 am

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  I just posted my first blog. How do I get rid of/edit out this gibberish (pasted below) preceding my blog text?
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  false
  false
  false

  EN-US
  X-NONE
  X-NONE

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  {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”;
  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
  mso-style-noshow:yes;
  mso-style-priority:99;
  mso-style-parent:””;
  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
  mso-para-margin:0in;
  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
  font-size:10.0pt;
  font-family:”Times New Roman”,”serif”;}

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  danielisreading · Member · Jun 30, 2013 at 4:23 am

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  Right now that doesn’t seem visible on your first and only post on joannaoftheforest. However, by chance, did you type the post in Microsoft Word, and then copied it over to wordpress?

  If so, this usually pastes a lot of unwanted code in, which will be visible. You can use the Paste from Word button, to paste cleanly into wordpress. Or type directly into the Posts -> Add New section, where you can save drafts.

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  joannaoftheforest · Member · Jun 30, 2013 at 4:27 am

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  Thanks. I did paste from Word and copied it. Then I figured out how to edit it out. I appreciate your suggestions!

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  joannaoftheforest · Member · Jun 30, 2013 at 4:28 am

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  I mean I copied and pasted. It’s getting late :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 30, 2013 at 6:49 am

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  Go to Settings->Writing and select “wordpress should correct invalidly nested XHTML.” That will prevent future posts from screwing things up that badly.

  If you want to write offline, use Windows Live Writer. It doesn ‘t screw you up and it DOES allow you to format for your theme, add tags and categories and images.