WordPress removes spacing from my posts

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  jqstockwell · Member · Mar 4, 2015 at 12:21 pm

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  Hello,

  Could somebody PLEASE explain to me why half the time when I go back to edit my unfinished posts, all of the paragraph spacing has been removed, leaving a solid block of text which I have to then go through re-separating all the paragraphs?!

  Thank you,

  Jonathan

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 11:26 pm

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  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 please read this http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

  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”

  IMPORTANT NOTE: 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.