Comments on: How to paste Word doc text into posts or pages http://seehowtwo.com/2009/03/wp-27-how-to-paste-word-doc-text-into-posts-or-pages/ help is less than two minutes away Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:59:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joseph http://seehowtwo.com/2009/03/wp-27-how-to-paste-word-doc-text-into-posts-or-pages/#comment-196 Joseph Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:06:25 +0000 http://seehowtwo.com/?p=130#comment-196 I purchased your book two weeks ago and it certainly has help me a great deal. However, I am still having problems. On my front page(opening page) I have listed 5 pages. I would like to add one more, however, the one I want to add is not alphabetically correct and it now comes up first. Can you help. Also, is there any one in the South Florida area that can give me instruction on wordpress? I purchased your book two weeks ago and it certainly has help me a great deal. However, I am still having problems.
On my front page(opening page) I have listed 5 pages. I would like to add one more, however, the one I want to add is not alphabetically correct and it now comes up first. Can you help.

Also, is there any one in the South Florida area that can give me instruction on wordpress?

]]> By: George http://seehowtwo.com/2009/03/wp-27-how-to-paste-word-doc-text-into-posts-or-pages/#comment-13 George Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:07:57 +0000 http://seehowtwo.com/?p=130#comment-13 You're quite right, Liz, and I debated long and hard about what to say in the video on that subject. But on the whole, in my experience with clients, the mess that Word creates is worse than any formatting issues caused by this method. You definitely need to check what gets imported to make sure it didn't mess up something. Perhaps there's another video here, but prior to using WordPress, I always had clients copy the Word text from their screen and place it in a barebones text editor. The disadvantage there, of course, is that all formatting is lost and you need to re-bold, etc. I know very complex formatting can get lost in pasting this way. On the other hand, complex formatting rarely works well on the web so I usually advise clients to break up the information into more web-sized (and HTML-friendly) bites. So, caveat paster :-) You’re quite right, Liz, and I debated long and hard about what to say in the video on that subject. But on the whole, in my experience with clients, the mess that Word creates is worse than any formatting issues caused by this method. You definitely need to check what gets imported to make sure it didn’t mess up something.

Perhaps there’s another video here, but prior to using WordPress, I always had clients copy the Word text from their screen and place it in a barebones text editor. The disadvantage there, of course, is that all formatting is lost and you need to re-bold, etc.

I know very complex formatting can get lost in pasting this way. On the other hand, complex formatting rarely works well on the web so I usually advise clients to break up the information into more web-sized (and HTML-friendly) bites.

So, caveat paster :-)

]]> By: Liz http://seehowtwo.com/2009/03/wp-27-how-to-paste-word-doc-text-into-posts-or-pages/#comment-12 Liz Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:42:15 +0000 http://seehowtwo.com/?p=130#comment-12 We have found that this doesn't *always* work. This made us sad pandas. Glad it's working for you though. :) We have found that this doesn’t *always* work. This made us sad pandas.

Glad it’s working for you though. :)

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