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New compose editor won't paste text correctly
In the old compose editor I never had any problem copying text from a web page and pasting it into my blog post. It seems like the new compose editor won't do this. I was unable to adjust the font size of some text that I copied in. So I had a choice of either typing in the lengthy quote manually, or leaving it out (or going back to the old compose editor).
I tried copying the text into my word processor, making it the exact font and size that the compose editor was using, and then pasting it into the blog post. Same problem. You need to fix this. I often include text from other web sites in a blog post, and it's disappointing that the new compose editor seems incapable of doing this.
I tried copying the text into my word processor, making it the exact font and size that the compose editor was using, and then pasting it into the blog post. Same problem. You need to fix this. I often include text from other web sites in a blog post, and it's disappointing that the new compose editor seems incapable of doing this.
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Inappropriate?We generally discourage customers from copying and pasting from Word applications because of the extra formatting that's created by those external applications. You're better off copying to a pure text editor such as Notepad and then into compose. There's more info about this in our Knowledge Base: http://support.typepad.com/cgi-bin/ty...
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Inappropriate?Kimmie, thanks for the reply. I wasn't copying from Word. I was copying from a web site and pasting directly into the compose editor. Before switching to the New TypePad I never had a problem with this. No matter how the text looked on a web site, it would copy in fine into my blog post.
Now it looks like an extra step will be needed: copying from a web site into a text editor, then from the text editor into the blog post. I'll give this a try, but naturally I prefer the cleaner and simpler way the Old TypePad compose editor functioned.
Usually when an "upgrade" is released, users of a program or service don't lose functionality. They gain some. With the New TypePad, you seem to have taken as many steps backward as forward. At least, that's my impression after having switched to the New TypePad and given it a fair try.1 Comment
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Brian, you might want to try using Windows Live Writer to compose your posts. It works flawlessly, and also lets you "paste as plain text" to remove any formatting from the page you copied from. It also has real WYSIWYG preview—you can see your post exactly as it will look on your whole blog. It's brilliant. Even after moving to Blogger I still use it because it is so easy and functional. Beats every blog platform's native compose screen, I'd say. -
Inappropriate?Brian, I was responding to the second portion of your question, where you tried to copy/paste into your word processor. I tried copy/pasting from a web page and was able to do it successfully. What formatting issues are you seeing and which web page were you on?1 Comment Add a comment
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Kimmie, I tried to copy the first two paragraphs on this site:
http://www.johnrbutler.com/
But I just tried again (after succeeding using a text editor) and the text copied in fine. Last night, the text was enlarged -- Arial 17, I recall, and it wouldn't change size no matter what I did. Meaning, clicking on the size arrows had no effect. It was stuck on Arial 17, so when I tried "preview" the copied text looked quite a bit larger than the text in the rest of my post. Maybe this is an intermittent problem. Anyway, thanks for checking. -
Inappropriate?I ALWAYS find the font size 'stuck' as Brian said. It often does not 'read' the accurate size. And more often, when i change the font size, it does not make the actual change. This is only one of the lousy handling features of TP 'editor'. [And no, i will not fool around in html coding view. The rich text is supposed to work; maybe one day when something freezes over it might?]
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Inappropriate?On the few occasions that I have this problem, I have just been able to highlight the problematic text and click the "remove formatting" button (located next to the strike-through button) and everything is fine.
Hopefully that'll work for you too.
Allen
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