Editing pasted-in text

  • When I paste-in text from Notepad into a WP Post and then try to edit it I find that:

    1. If I made a word bold there is no problem when I preview or publish
    2. If I add a blank line using carriage return it shows to start with but then when I save/preview/publish it reverts back to the original formatting.

    I am new to Word Press and hope this makes sense and someone can help me

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  • it will only do this in the visual editor
    if using the html editor, code is preserved

    Thread Starter petersilverman

    (@petersilverman)

    Samboll, Thank you for your comment

    Does that mean you cannot carry out simple editing tasks like putting in a blank line without knowing HTML ?

    no – you don’t need to know html to use the html editor

    Thread Starter petersilverman

    (@petersilverman)

    I appreciate you are trying to help me.

    When I go to the HTML editor I see lines of code which I do not understand.

    How ado I add a blank line to some text in the editor so that the change will publish OK

    Still puzzled

    a blank line = “enter” on keyboard
    a paragraph == “enter 2 times”

    Thread Starter petersilverman

    (@petersilverman)

    I have put the cursor at the end of a line of HTML, pressed enter twice. The spaces show between the lines of html, I press update and have a look at the published page. No line / para spaces show.
    When I go back to the html page they have gone from there as well.

    Thread Starter petersilverman

    (@petersilverman)

    I have just done an experiment

    I have set up a new post and find that I can edit text I type in and can also edit (ie insert blank lines with “Enter”)text pasted in directly from Word. Also no problem with text pasted in from Notepad.

    I have just noticed that I have been editing in the html not the visual tab. This time html editor shows normal text rather than html!!!!

    I have looked back at the post composed intitally of pasted in text from Notepad and see thet in the html editor it still shows code not ordinary text.

    Does this make any sense?

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