Monday, October 13, 2008

blogger copy and paste

On Friday I noticed a problem one person was having with Blogger. We finally solved the problem, but I thought it would be easy for others of you to run into the same issue. The quirk arises when you copy text from one document (e.g. Word) and then try to paste that text into Blogger. Sometimes it doesn't work right (to be precise: sometimes it seems to place the text outside and below the compose area). The issue seems to arise depending on the mode you are using. Check out the image below:
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As indicated in the image, you need to have the Edit HTML tab active. All works correctly in terms of copying/pasting in this case. However, if for some reason you have the Compose tab active then pasting text doesn't work correctly. I don't know why this is, but I now know this is what will happen.

As a reminder, the bottom part of the image shows you where you can insert a category (or what Blogger calls "labels") for your new post.

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