Why is there a code displayed before my current draft post?

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  stevenruff · Member · Jun 7, 2013 at 5:56 pm

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  I have noticed as of today that when I create a post by pasting in from Word, there is a code present. Also, the type size is different. Can you help me with this?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 7, 2013 at 5:59 pm

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  Please 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/