Hard Returns disappear in new editor

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    thefoodandwinehedonist · Member ·

    When I open a post that’s already published using the new (ish) post editor, it removes ALL hard returns. I have to got through and manually enter them again.

    If I open a post in the “classic” editor version, it doesn’t do that.

    I wouldn’t mind switching to the new version, but not if I have to re-format every post I go back into.

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    timethief · Member ·

    If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD please know that 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 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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    thefoodandwinehedonist · Member ·

    I’m not sure this is relevant. I’m not pasting new content into the new editor. The changes are occurring when I open an OLDER already-published post in the new editor.

    If I reopen using the “Classic” editor, everything is fine. So in this case I’m seeing. A difference between two blog editors. Not between an editor and word processing program.

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