Pasting text into a post

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  babyboomerslessonslearned · Member · Oct 28, 2016 at 7:58 pm

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  I am trying to publish my first blog post. Instead of typing the post, I want to cut and paste in text from a Word document. How do I paste text from a different document into a post?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 28, 2016 at 8:00 pm

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  Have you read the Microsoft WORD support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/ ?

  Have you also read Microsoft OneDrive Word Web App https://en.support.wordpress.com/word-web-app/?

  Microsoft Word includes a lot of junk code and that’s why using Microsoft LiveWriter is preferred. https://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/

  For copying and pasting from Microsoft WORD.

  If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed last year. If you use the Paste as plain 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

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

  http://shelleyhrdlitschka.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php

  If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages in a wordpress.COM blog see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/ Specifically see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/#extra-line-breaks

  You can also use the pre tag. See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-get-rid-of-double-word-spacing?replies=21#post-2512371

  If you use the classic editor here Dashboard > Posts > Add New to create your posts what I provide below may be helpful.

  In the classic editor, 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 Text or HTML editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.

  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”

  IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.