Typing in HTML and WORDPRESS seriously changes what I want

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  yebodave · Member · Apr 26, 2014 at 6:21 pm

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  I find when I type in HTML to a Page’s Text, then save it, WordPress makes a salad of my efforts. What do I need know? THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY!!! Here is an example:

  IN MICROSOFT WORD, I TYPE:

  <table width=”50%”>
  <tr align=””center””>
  <th colspan=”2””>
  <h1><em<h1>
  </th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <th>In 1924, Australian expat, South African,</th>
  <th><h1>Raymond Dart</h1></th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>suggested that human origin was in Africa.</td>
  <td>I paraphrase his account</td>
  </tr>
  <td>”What lay in my hands…“</td>
  </tr><td>Dart lived outside of the Knowledge Elite,</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>so initially his observations were ignored.</td>
  <td>free excerpt of Dart’s book,</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Adventures with the Missing Link (1982)</td>
  <td>
  <h3>http://tinyurl.com/n52ksz2</h3&gt;
  </td>
  </tr>
  </tbody>
  </table>

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  WHEN I CUT AND PASTE INTO A PAGE’s TEXT, WORD PRESS CHANGES IT:

  “What lay in my hands…“Dart lived outside of the Knowledge Elite,
  <table width=””50%””>
  <tbody>
  <tr align=””center””>
  <th>
  <h1><em</h1>
  <h1></h1>
  </th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <th>In 1924, Australian expat, South African,</th>
  <th>
  <h1>Raymond Dart</h1>
  </th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>suggested that human origin was in Africa.</td>
  <td>I paraphrase his account</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>so initially his observations were ignored.</td>
  <td>free excerpt of Dart’s book,</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Adventures with the Missing Link (1982)</td>
  <td>
  <h3>http://tinyurl.com/n52ksz2</h3&gt;
  </td>
  </tr>
  </tbody>
  </table>

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 26, 2014 at 6:45 pm

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  Don’t write HTML in programs that are not web-compliant. Use windows live writer or blogdesk or even Notepad.

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  yebodave · Member · Apr 26, 2014 at 9:28 pm

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  Okay, where do suggest I go for Windows Live writer? What I see comes with a package of other software I don’t need because I have better.

  Or, Notepad?
  I am afraid of importing stuff from sources I don’t know.
  Too much bad experience bringing junk into my system.
  Homefully, they will let me do, e.g. tables less than the length of the textline.
  Thanks! !

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 26, 2014 at 10:50 pm

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  If you’re afraid of junk in your system, why are you using Word? If you don’t have a plain text editor and don’t know what one is, you shouldn’t be trying to write your own HTML.

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  yebodave · Member · Apr 26, 2014 at 11:36 pm

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  By junk I am trying to avoid, I mean malware that comes with the software that you want to use. I have wasted too much time ridding my system from the deviousness of software I naively downloaded.
  And please, I do feel like you are just parading your ego and not supplying information. Who are to say what I should learn? Maybe you don’t have the interest in learning HTML, but it certainly seems valid.
  I have already succeeded in making pages that would not be possible with the WordPress buttons.
  WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND A RELIABLE SOURCE FOR THE SOFTWARES YOU BRIEFLY AND WITHOUT MUCH ASSISTANCE SUGGESTED?