Pasting from Word

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  ashleydwatson · Member · Jul 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm

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  I’ve tried several different options when trying to paste a word document onto my blog. The formatting is not the same. Even when I paste into the HTML format, I cannot indent lines because it justifies them to the left when I save the blog. How do I paste the EXACT format from Mac Word?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 30, 2010 at 5:05 pm

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  Word is good as a word processor, but it does not speak html. Word inserts all sorts extra (often nonsense) code. Trying to use it to write your blog will inevitably lead to problems, possibly even breaking your theme.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/

  You can use an off-line editor to write and format your posts safely:
  Ecto is one for Macs
  Windows LiveWriter is one for Windows

  This post might help explain in more detail:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paste-from-word-icon-is-not-working?replies=7#post-336510

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 30, 2010 at 5:09 pm

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  If you are interested in learning a little html, you can format indents in several ways:

  Formatting text pt. 2: indents and blockquotes

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 30, 2010 at 5:18 pm

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  After a couple of disasters pasting Word documents into WordPress using the “Paste Word” function I now paste in as “Plain Text” (the left Paste Icon not the one with the “W”) then I use the WordPress editor to fine tune the format and look.

  Way fewer surprises. For some posts I am now using Windows Live Writer and it is working well, a few quirks and a bit different but so far so good.