No paragraphs in my post

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    aintnoshrinkingviolet · Member ·

    My latest blog entry shows up with no paragraphs, making it difficult for people to read. In the editor the paragraphs show up fine. I’ve never had this happen before…what could be wrong?

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    timethief · Member ·

    If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note 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://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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    aintnoshrinkingviolet · Member ·

    Thank you so much for your help! I did, in fact, copy and paste this post from an email and am certain you’re right about that causing the formatting problems.

    Since I’m an extremely technically challenged person I could barely get through your instructions, but I did manage to decipher them and get everything fixed up nicely. Thanks!

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hooray! A few find fault with my comprehensive answers but they are few in number. In most cases what I post is understandable and does produce a positive result. Happy blogging! :)

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