unwanted html appearing when I post

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  bemovelive · Member · May 13, 2013 at 8:58 pm

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  html appears when I post my blog. How do I get rid of it?

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  timethief · Member · May 13, 2013 at 8:59 pm

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  Are you copying and pasting from Microsoft WORD?

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  timethief · Member · May 13, 2013 at 9:00 pm

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  I checked your blog and the answer is “yes”.

  All that garbage formatting code is a result of copying and pasting from Microsoft WORD.

  Edit the post to remove that code > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/

  Microsoft Word is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

  Note you need to click the kitchen sink icon #15 at the end of Row 1 to have Row 2 appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-1

  Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
  Formatting
  _ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/