Microsoft Word copy and paste problem
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Hello I hope someone can help me. I’m new to blogging and I read the tutorial on posting pages in Microsoft Word. I understand the problem with the tags but I don’t understand why when I copy and paste from Word into my pages to make up chapters I lose all my italic and bold words in the text. Is there a way around this? Could I put Word into another program that will convert it into a format that would keep these alterations? The documents I’m pasting are long (9000) and I would prefer not to go through it all to ad those details. Please take note that I’m a new blogger so try to explain in terms that I understand. :)
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Yes, there is: don’t use Microsoft Word.
Until you’ve looked at the actual HTML code a Word doc generates, you have no way of knowing how incredibly screwed up it is. Word is not meant for writing on the web. If you like Word, use Windows Live Writer to do your blog posts. You can presumably paste from Word into that and it will fix the issues. And it works just like Word, only you can format your post and add tags, categories and a title before uploading it.
Also, before you do another copy-paste, please go to your Settings->Writing page and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML” because that’s what Word generates: invalidly nested XHTML, which is why you are seeing those errors.
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More precisely, never copypaste from Word directly into the Visual editor. You can do it using the “Paste from Word” tool (it will retain bold and italics).
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Thank you for the advice. I went and changed the setting, thank you for that Raincoaster. I’ll see if I can find Windows Live Writer and go from there.
Justpi, as far as the Paste from word is concerned, that is how I’ve been doing it, that was in the tutorial but is still doesn’t bring those details across. So either I’m doing it wrong or something!
What is the best way? I want to start properly and not have to struggle so if Live Writer is the answer then I’ll do that but I’ll have to transfer all my work to the new program so I would prefer to do that only once. -
You’ll like Windows Live Writer. It is easy for Word users to use and it saves a lot of time.
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Thank you Raincoaster. I found it and installed it as well as assigned it to my blog. I then went and copied and pasted from Word straight into it and it still didn’t take my bolds and italics. Did I do something wrong or do I have to change a setting? I’m pulling my hair out here!
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The problem is Word, not you. Try what justpi suggested above for your pre-existing posts.
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