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I would appreciate more detailed instructions on where to put this in relation to the short code. Thanks!

That would be great. Any reply?

Sorry Esmi. I was not aware of those many other times. Thank you for repeating the information.

If not a return to the old way, is there work underway to get a similar feature? Work time is greatly lengthened by this glitch.

The old paste box was perfect. Can’t we just get it back?

egable1 — yes, exactly. I want the second; you want the first. But I believe the removal of this feature is what is causing problems for both of us.

egable1: sure.

I have an email I want to paste into WordPress on a page. I copy the body of the text.

When I go to paste in WP, it pastes exactly as it looks in the email (with very short lines of text). In the previous version of WP, I could paste this into a box that had the option “Keep Line Breaks” as a tick box. When I unchecked said tick box, the text would go in seamlessly. Now it goes in as many short lines of text. If I Paste and Match Style, there are no tags at all despite the separation of lines of text. If I do a regular Paste, I get tags for all kinds of things I don’t want. Looks like it is treating each line as <span style>

Here’s the most recent example:

<span style="color: #000000;">Subject: CFP: Monographic essay on a work by Giulio Paolini ("In?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">collezione" series, no. 2)</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Deadline: Sep 30, 2014</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For its “In collezione” series (Italian/English) the Fondazione Giulio?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">e Anna Paolini in Turin, Italy, invites international researchers and?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">scholars with a graduate (i.e. Master's and or Ph.D.) degree in art?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">history or in another area of the humanities to submit their?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">application for the writing of a paid essay on one of the three works?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">by Giulio Paolini indicated below. The length of the text must be from?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">a minimum of 7,000 to a maximum of 10,000 words.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The winning proposal will be selected based on an abstract that must be?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">at least 500 words long to be sent to the Foundation by 30 September?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">2014.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Candidates may choose from one of the following works:?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">? Senza titolo, 1961</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">???One of the most representative examples of the artist’s early work,?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">it is comprised of a tin of white paint placed on the lower edge of an?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">empty stretcher and held down by a transparent polyethylene sheet?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">stretched across the stretcher like a canvas.?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">? Mimesi, 1975</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">???Two plaster casts of the bust of the Hermes of Praxiteles are?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">arranged opposite each other, just slightly staggered so that their?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">gazes cross. An icon par excellence of Paolini’s art.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">? Delfo (IV), 1997</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">???The fourth variant of a theme begun in 1965 introduces a?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">photographic portrait of Giulio Paolini, taken at a distance as he?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">gazes over the balcony of his home, set inside an enlargement of the?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">same photograph matching the frame of the window.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The “In collezione” series examines the 67 works by Giulio Paolini –?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">paintings, sculptures, installations – executed between 1960 and 2011?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">that currently comprise the Foundation collection. Each volume contains?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">the in-depth study of one work (or the joint study of several related?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">works).</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The monographic studies, accompanied by illustrations, propose a wide?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">range of investigation: from description to interpretation, from formal?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">aspects to conceptual ones, from the position within Paolini’s research?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">to the contextualization within the art-historical field of their time.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The back matter which follows the main text includes the exhibition?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">chronology and bibliography for the work analyzed, as well as?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">additional information and testimonies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Foundation is a non-profit organization whose main purpose is the?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">study and mediation of the activities of Giulio Paolini.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For further details on the competition and the works concerned, see the?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">corresponding page in the Foundation website at?</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><a href="https://www.fondazionepaolini.it/it/callforpapers.php">www.fondazionepaolini.it/it/callforpapers.php</a><span style="color: #000000;">.</span>

That’s what I thought I did. Still confused.

I will assume that my feedback has been registered and hope that something will be done about the line breaks/pasting issue.

Thank you.

Esmi, I am not sure to whom your comment was directed, unless all of us, but this post is categorized as WordPress ? Support ? Requests and Feedback.

So now I am really confused. You asked us to start a new thread for the new version of Word Press. I did. Is there something wrong here? (Other than the fact we still have no answer as to how one can paste choose to eliminate line breaks as in the previous version of WordPress?)

Egable1 — yes, exactly. I paste large bits of text often taken from e-mails or PDFs and the new editor treats every single line as a paragraph meaning that I have to go through and manually delete all those paragraph marks. So, when I pasted, I would uncheck the “Keep Line Breaks” option. I’m not sure why my pasting is leading to load of line breaks and yours isn’t, but I think we are on the same page in our displeasure with the new method of pasting.

As for Iansss, I’m unclear on the trouble he is having. I toggle between Visual and Text all the time without trouble.

The problem is not with switching between visual and text in the editing box, but with the icon for “Paste as Text” (the little clipboard with a T on it)

When clicking this icon, instead of getting a text entry box, with the option to either keep line breaks or turn them off, we now get this message:

“Paste is now in plain text mode. Contents will now be pasted as plain text until you toggle this option off. If you’re looking to paste rich content from Microsoft Word, try turning this option off. The editor will clean up text pasted from Word automatically.”

Either way you try it, this new feature does not work. I would like the option NOT to keep the line breaks as explained above (and as WP used to allow).

Well, the main complaint — hence this post — is the loss of the two ways to paste text. There used to be one button for paste as text and another for paste as word. I can’t speak for both, but the text one opened a box that allowed us to select or deselect “Keep Line Breaks.” This meant that any text could be pasted from any source and go in as a single paragraph if one deselected “Keep Line Breaks.” That’s what so many of us are missing. Now it only pastes with line breaks, which is super annoying if you are pasting a lot. Especially happens when the original copied text is from an email or PDF.

There also used to be buttons for inserting date and time. Now it is a drop down menu, which is slower, and there are not as many format choices. I used to choose the option with the month spelled out, day, year format. Now my only similar option is mm/dd/yyyy, which is fine but not as elegant as Month day, year.

The new version of WP screwed up all my tables, which I use fairly frequently. Little by slowly I am recreating them with the new table feature, but I hope it doesn’t happen again!

The HTML version (Text rather than Visual) seems to have lost its button to insert a paragraph start and paragraph end.

That’s all I can think of for now.

I thought it was a Plugin. Maybe I’m thinking of a plugin I had to give advanced features to it. All I know is that the new version messed up my tables and the buttons to insert date and time. At the moment I have TinyMCE Advanced Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress. Version 4.0.2 | By Andrew Ozz

Ah, yes. I noticed many strange things to TinyMCE and so I deactivated it. Do you recommend reinstalling TinyMCE or waiting. Thank you.

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This is a major flaw in the new version. The “Paste as Text” button doesn’t do anything as far as I can tell. I regularly need to copy announcements sent to me as emails, and ever line is seen as a paragraph that I have to manually change to continue the line. I definitely miss that old feature.