Hard Breaks for Paragraphs

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  upstreamfiscalblog · Member · May 31, 2016 at 8:42 pm

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  Hi, I just published my first post. For some reason, when I view it from the reader, the paragraph breaks do not show up. So the post looks like one long paragraph. Any help would be apprecicated

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2016 at 8:44 pm

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  If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed months ago. If you use the Paste as text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

  Whether or not you are copying and pasting go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  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 or enter 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/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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  upstreamfiscalblog · Member · May 31, 2016 at 8:46 pm

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  Thanks very much!!!

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2016 at 8:51 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.

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  capost2k · Member · Jun 5, 2016 at 9:14 pm

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  Mine WAS set to Paragraph, and I had the same problem, just today. By trial and error, I went to the HTML tab instead of the visual tab and entered </span></p> which was in the one paragraph that was separated from the rest of the text. Now I do not know if the post will show extra spaces or not, but at least it will not be like you said, one long string. thanx. c.a.