Here's a sample of a Word document, copied directly into Post Editor.
And this is what we now have. How can you edit this, when you need to? Auuugh.
Content composed in Microsoft Word, with lots of "<div> ... </div>", a "<div>" tags, may be a cause of problems with the New Post Editor 2008, and the "Read More" feature.
The meta code (as shown above) generated by Microsoft Word will cause invisibly large posts - and problems with both auto pagination, and with various newsfeed related accessories.
Please, don't do that. This is simpler, believe me.
Of course, simpler still would be not using Word in the first place. But you can't always tell your friends what to do.
It's also possible that copying the Word content, directly into Post Editor, in Edit HTML mode, will strip away all gratuitous metaformatting. If you do this, though, be careful about "<" and ">" characters. Alternately, you may be able to correct this after the fact.
Now is the time
For all good men
To come to the aid
Of their country.
The quick brown fox
Jumped over
The lazy dog.
The fountain pen
Of my aunt
Is filled with whiskey.
And this is what we now have. How can you edit this, when you need to? Auuugh.
Content composed in Microsoft Word, with lots of "<div> ... </div>", a "<div>" tags, may be a cause of problems with the New Post Editor 2008, and the "Read More" feature.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Now is the time</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">For all good men</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">To come to the aid</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Of their country.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">The quick brown fox<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">Jumped over<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">The lazy dog.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><u>The fountain pen<o:p></o:p></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><u>Of my aunt<o:p></o:p></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><u>Is filled with whiskey.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
The meta code (as shown above) generated by Microsoft Word will cause invisibly large posts - and problems with both auto pagination, and with various newsfeed related accessories.
Please, don't do that. This is simpler, believe me.
- Edit your post, in Compose mode.
- Select the entire post.
- Hit the "Remove formatting" button, in the toolbar.
- Reformat everything, as desired.
- Finally, Save the reformatted post.
Of course, simpler still would be not using Word in the first place. But you can't always tell your friends what to do.
It's also possible that copying the Word content, directly into Post Editor, in Edit HTML mode, will strip away all gratuitous metaformatting. If you do this, though, be careful about "<" and ">" characters. Alternately, you may be able to correct this after the fact.
Comments
It's easier to do than to explain.
You copy the content into Notepad, which strips out all of the formatting, leaving just text and some (not all) line breaks.
You recreate the needed line breaks in Notepad, then copy the entire contents into post editor compose.
You check the line and paragraph breaks. Then you add bold, italics, quotes, lists, and other content elements. It's a tedious process, but a lot more reliable than cleaning up artifacts from Microsoft Word.
I'm updating my post to reflect the ideas discussed in the Google Blogger Help: How Do I? thread.
The idea of copying directly from Word into Post Editor, in Edit HTML mode, sounds promising. Just be very careful, if the document has "<" and / or ">" characters!
1. copy into HTML directly then use Compose to format, or
2. copy into Compose, then select all, use Eraser to remove formatting & then format using Post options.
Ck in Preview. I didn't need to put linebreaks back in, but can't say that's true for you.
If the "undo/redo" option, I could compose directly in Post!
Thank you for helping!
Saved me a LOT of TIME!!!
As you publish properly formatted posts, the new posts will show up on the main page together.
The posts which contain MSWord formatting will show up separately, under "Older Posts", until you edit and clean them.
Thanks for the question, that's a good one!
I can think of several techniques - starting from the symptoms.
Using MSWord results in posts that are larger than they appear. If you're not using Jump Break, you can look for a main page that contains less posts than should be normally visible. Then look at page source - using a text browser or viewing page source - and look for "MSO" and similar tags.
On an individual post basis, again look at page source, for posts that are larger than they look in normal view.
I'm looking at "How to Love Where You Are ..." - and I'm not seeing any main page segments with obvious MSO effects - and I looked at 5 segments ("Older Posts"), one by one.
If you're not seeing any problems reported, I'd just concentrate on publishing more posts - and not worry. If you have a problem reported, then look for MSWord artifacts.