Precise editing of posts
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Hello,
I am new to this site, and I am experiencing difficulty with editing my posts prior to publishing. I have spent some time formatting and editing my post, particularly first line indenting, then I save the editing. But when I view the postings, the editing has not been saved.
It seems to me, that there is very little formatting and editing facilities in the posting window. For instance, I have been unable to change the font size, line spacing and Justify, my posts.
I have tried doing all of my editing in Word, prior to posting, and then doing a copy and paste into WordPress. But none of the editing is retained.
I would appreciate any help and advice, from any quarter, on these niggling issues.
David.
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Welcome to the internet, where precise formatting is done via HTML code. Unless you are comfortable doing HTML coding, you will not be able to precisely control the formatting of your posts, not even by pasting.
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Hello raincoaster,
Regrettably, I am not comfortable doing HTML coding. And, in view of what you say, it would seem to me that WordPress imposes some unnecessary restrictions on its bloggers.
Surely they can provide a few more of the most basic formatting facilities; like font size, first line indenting, and line spacing, for instance? As it is, it is a bit off-putting, to say the least.Thanks for your speedy feedback,
David.
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Not sure whether this will help, but today I wrote part of my story in Word 14 point Times New Roman and when I executed a cut and paste, it produced it perfectly.
The other option is instead of paste use paste special, if it is available.
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https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/stories/the-border-ordeal/
This is the story where I executed 14 point.
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Raincoaster is correct but it is not all sad and gloom.
Learn HTML one step at a time.When I looked at how it coded 14 point, I thought hmm that’s how you do it.
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Pasting from Word is like putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger and wondering why your head blew up – not recommended at all as it brings in all sorts of bad html and as you found out it does not always work very well
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Hello Johnbrennanlive, Thanks for your speedy response to my plea. Did you cut and paste into the New Posts window? Th
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You might have better luck (you WILL have better luck) with a true offline blog editor like Blogdesk. They have functions like this, but they convert it to HTML without you having to do anything.
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I have tried doing all of my editing in Word, prior to posting, and then doing a copy and paste into WordPress. But none of the editing is retained.
I would appreciate any help and advice, from any quarter, on these niggling issues.
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/
If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed from the editor months ago. 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 Therefore you have to do your own formatting and spacing.
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”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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I stopped using offline blog editors like Blogdesk and Windowslivewriter years ago and do not even know if Blogdesk works well these days or not. What I do know is what I posted above. I copy and paste my post content from WORD and I have been doing so for many years. I do very well by simply following the instructions I posted above. -
Sometimes the paste works and sometimes not – just sort of depends – I Admin a blog for some retired friends – they send me the email and I paste it into a Post – but always paste as text – – then fine turn the looks – sometimes that works well and other times the same process leaves me with a fair amount of work to do – – so that is why we urge caution and don’t recommend you try and fine tune outside a regular blog editor or your editor in your Dashboard
good luck
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Did you cut and paste into the New Posts window?
No, using CHROME I pasted it into a Static Page.
Not sure whether that makes a difference.I am not sure why timethief stopped using Windowslive writer, she says:
I stopped using offline blog editors like Blogdesk and Windowslivewriter years ago
Why did you stop using it?
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