Word Process Question; highlight, make font bigger, etc.
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Hi,
I would like to do some very basic changes to my text such as highlight the text or make the font bigger.
I am also having trouble making my text single space.
If I return–it has a gap between the lines which I don’t want.It doesn’t transfer the formatting from Word–the highlight, etc. if i just paste it in.
Anyway–I’d like to have more control over my text/formatting. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you
Melissa
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• Never copypaste directly from Word into the Visual editor: it introduces lots of junk code that will mess things up. Use the Paste from Word tool or paste into the HTML editor.
• Line break instead of paragraph break in the Visual editor: shift-return.
• Changing the font size requires coding in the HTML editor – see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/formatting-text-pt-5/• If by highlighting you mean background color, see here:
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To single space lines of text, hold the shift key and press enter/return.
MS Word is not a web application. It is a wordprocessing application for print media and it makes severely junk code that will break your site, which is why wordpress strips it out.
If you are on Windows, I would suggest downloading the free Windows Live Writer blog client which is very “Word” like with lots of features, but unlike Word, it creates clean, compliant code that will hot destroy your site.
The other alternative, if you know HTML, is to hand code all of your special formatting in the HTML tab on the wordpress editor.
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Thank you very much Panaghiotisadam and thesacredpath.:) (I did see all that code trailing once when I did the paste.)
I will try these suggestions.
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