numbered list keeps appearing

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  thebigpicturereport · Member · Jul 28, 2014 at 8:39 pm

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  For a long time, I’ve been cutting & pasting my work to my blog and it always displayed correctly what I pasted. All of a sudden, when I copy and paste, a numbered list always appears (where I want it to be A,B& C, instead I get a 1,2,3 numbered list) . How do I disable this function?

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Jul 28, 2014 at 11:22 pm

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  Hi there!

  I’m happy to help you out with this. I’ve never tried to copy and paste a lettered list into WordPress.com before. Is this something you’ve done successfully before? Can you give me a link to a post where you were able to do this?

  Otherwise, you should be able to accomplish this through the Text editor. When you look at your numbered list in the Text editor you’ll see something like this:

  <ol>
          <li>Item #1</li>
          <li>Item #2</li>
          <li>Item #3</li>
  </ol>

  In order for the list to display lettered instead of numbered, change that first tag to this:

  <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;">

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  thebigpicturereport · Member · Jul 29, 2014 at 1:35 am

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  Thanks for responding. I’ve been pasting from my own Word document and never had any trouble until now. But I just found the “paste by text” icon and that seems to do the trick.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 2:53 am

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  Oh great! Definitely use the Paste as Text button when copying from Word.

  Rich text editors like Word can add a lot of extraneous code to your posts, which we strip out when you’re using the “Paste as Text” button.

  Let me know if you have any questions about that! :)

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  thebigpicturereport · Member · Jul 30, 2014 at 4:33 am

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  Thanks, Shawna. I think we have it solved.