Wrong description when sharing a link?

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  bleachershane · Member · Jan 13, 2014 at 10:00 pm

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  Whenever I share a link to a recent blog post the following appears:

  Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:ye…

  Does anyone know how to cure this apart from reposting the blog content onto a blank blog?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 13, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  That’s because you are copying a pasting from Microsoft WORD.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 13, 2014 at 10:03 pm

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  Edit the post and remove that formatting code then click “update”.

  Then 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/

  You need to be cautious and use the correct approach when copying and pasting from any document created in a word processor.

  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

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  bleachershane · Member · Jan 13, 2014 at 10:13 pm

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  Thanks. You are most certainly right, I did copy and paste from Word!

  When I published the lines of code appeared at the top. I went into edit and removed them, but unfortunately that didn’t update the share preview that sites such as Facebook access. Does WordPress not update this despite removing the offending data from the post?

  I have gone into the settings and set up WordPress to correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically. Thanks for the tip.

  I’m going to look into Windows Live Writer now.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 13, 2014 at 10:17 pm

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  You will have to post the link manually to Facebook. Publicize autoposts only immediately after the original post is published and not when a post is edited.

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  bleachershane · Member · Jan 13, 2014 at 10:20 pm

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  Thanks for the information and prompt replies! Will be much more careful in the future with copy and pastes!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 13, 2014 at 10:24 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.

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  udaanchoo · Member · Jan 22, 2014 at 7:28 am

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  I want to change the META description & Keywords for the site. How do i do it?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 22, 2014 at 10:14 am

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  You do a search of the forum for that answer instead of hijacking completely unrelated threads.