paragraph spacing keeps disappearing. Any idea why?

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  theatrefunhouse · Member · Jun 19, 2014 at 5:56 pm

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  Why, when I’ve written a blog, do I come back to it sometimes to find all the paragraph spacing has been removed and it shows as a solid block of writing? Kind of annoying and time-consuming to put all the paragraphs back!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 19, 2014 at 5:59 pm

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  Are you copying and pasting text into posts or pages?

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  theatrefunhouse · Member · Jun 19, 2014 at 6:59 pm

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  Yes. I find it more convenient to write first on Word than to write straight onto wordpress. Is this what’s causing the problem and is there a way of getting around it?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 19, 2014 at 7:19 pm

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  Go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting there:
  Formatting
  __ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically

  See here for copying and pasting from WORD http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text and know that it is not web compliant. http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/

  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/writing-and-formatting-poetry/

  If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.

  If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.

  Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/

  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.