help with pasting microsoft word without extra spaces?

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  wordzmith12 · Member · Nov 1, 2011 at 3:02 am

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  Word documents, copied and pasted to wordpress.com blog post, get tweaked into double-spacing. Any way to keep spacing the same (i.e. single spacing) from Word to wordpress?
  Blog url: http://countrysonglyricsdotcom.wordpress.com/

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 1, 2011 at 6:33 am

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  I would recommend pasting Word documents in plain text using the html editor and then applying formatting after that. You may also want to review this help page: http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/

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  wordzmith12 · Member · Nov 3, 2011 at 8:06 pm

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  spacing is weird still, i guess a direct transfer of formatting and spacing from word is impossible?

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 3, 2011 at 8:20 pm

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  It’s likely. Microsoft Word doesn’t generate HTML that is easily compatible with other web editors. It also depends on how complex the formatting is in the Word document, the less complex the more likely it is to work on a web editor. Your best options is to follow the advice in our help document.