One Giant Long Word When Pasting to MW
Hello group
It has just recently come to my attention that the text I'm using to explain a particular product on my webpage comes up as one giant word when copied and pasted into Microsoft Word.
Please let me explain. Anyone looking at my website online can easily read and understand the products that I am selling on my website. But when I copy and paste the text from my online website into Microsoft Word it comes up as one long giant word. Now with that said, if I copy and paste to Microsoft Word when I am building my website in Xara the text is completely readable with spaces in between each word just like if you are reading the newspaper.
The one long giant word phenomenon also happens when I use my Google reader on my website.
My fear is that the web spider crawlers are reading the text on my website as one giant word instead of reading it in plain simple organized text.
What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?
I'm using Xara Web Designer Premium.
Thank you!
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again, without seeing your site, there is nothing to do.
Did you at any time Copy & Paste into XWDP from some other source or did you type it all in?
Acorn
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I would always type into Xara and then I would copy it and check it in my grammar checker and then paste it back into Xara. It does the same thing in my testimonial pages. All my testimonials were copied from an email a customer sent to me and then I pasted them into Xara.
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All I can suggest is paste into a plain text editor before and after and see if the CR/LF is altered.
We need an example, not a description.
Acorn
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This is what it looks like when I copy and paste from my live published website into Microsoft Word. I would always type into Xara and then I would copy it and check it in my grammar checker and then paste it back into Xara.
Also, I always select "Rich Text Format" from the paste special.
Therearemany,manydecisionsacabinetmakerwillmake beforepurchasinganyhardwoodorexotichardwoodsfrom so-calledlumberyardsontheweb.Iasaprofessionalcabinet makerwillonlydealwithlocalhardwoodespeciallylumber yards.Theperfectformulafordoingtherightthingisto alwaysrepeattheprocessandneverdeviate.Thiswillalwa ys guaranteehappycustomerswithgreatword-of-mouth references.
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again, you are missing the point. Unless we have a link to your site, no one can determine if it is you, your site, MS Word, Xara or some gremlin.
I have come across sites that use JavaScript to remove spaces in Copying.
I have seen Pasting where each word is placed so it looks as if there is a space.
Acorn
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Acorn, I'm sorry misunderstood. Here's a link to my website: www.cmcbb.com
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again
Acorn, I'm sorry misunderstood. Here's a link to my website:
www.cmcbb.com
again, it is the second option.
When you choose Full Justification, Xara, returns each word in a separate packet that is positioned exactly without any spaces whatsoever:
Code:
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="top: 0px;">My</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 25.05px; top: 0px;">website</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 82.18px; top: 0px;">was</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 113.17px; top: 0px;">completely</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 192.33px; top: 0px;">written</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 246.28px; top: 0px;">and</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 276.63px; top: 0px;">designed</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 342.23px; top: 0px;">by</span>
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text xr_s7" style="left: 362.79px; top: 0px;">myself.</span>
It is not very sensible as an approach. I would have designed appended a trailing space.
There is a workaround.
Each Text Area needs a Name of htmlblocktext added.
To add insult to injury, Xara then applies a wrongly calculated line height to this block of text.
My fudge for this is a little CSS in the Website Code (body):
Code:
<style> [style*='justify'] { line-height: 1.48em !important; } </style>
This assumes a line spacing of 120% everywhere.
The cleaner solution would be to set all your text blocks to left/right justify.
Acorn
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Thank you, Acorn, I will have to digest what you are saying and I will get it right.
But I do have to ask even though you did mention it. My website is safe concerning any trolls, JavaScript, or anything like that??
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again
Thank you, Acorn, I will have to digest what you are saying and I will get it right.
But I do have to ask even though you did mention it. My website is safe concerning any trolls, JavaScript, or anything like that??
A 'gremlin' would be offended if it were labelled a troll.
Your Xara design uses JavaScript in its normal build and is not harmful.
How safe it is depends on how secure your service provider is. There is little that can be hacked.
The only suggestion I have would be to aim to get the site using SSL (https://).
As your work hinges on visual impact, you could transform the site to being more image-centric and using Layers to reveal the textual detail.
It would be more punchy.
You also need to set up your external links to open into a new Tab as otherwise you lose your viewers.
Acorn
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Thank you for the website suggestions and for letting me know everything is clean.
While I was waiting for you to get back to me I did a little test on my website concerning your justified settings. I took one block of script and used left justified and then launched the website live. I then cut and pasted the test section into Microsoft Word and it came up perfectly readable with all the appropriate spaces. Acorn, you are a genius and thank you so much.
I'll be getting back to you concerning your website fix suggestions but I'll try to take it on my own so that I don't bother you so much.
Thank you again so very, very much!!!
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Acorn, may I ask for your help. I'm not sure if I should start a new thread but I thought I might start here so that you may remember my website errors that you mentioned.
I did follow your directions and I got rid of a lot of my bad external links but what I cannot fix or figure out on my own is the 404 errors listed below. Any help on how to find and fixes would be greatly appreciated. I do stress the word "find" because I cannot find these 404 errors at all.
You know it's funny that when I scan one page at a time using the Broken Link Checker Tool none of the below 404 errors are identified but when I scan my entire website the five 404 errors are seen.
Status URL Source link text
404 Not Found https://cabinetmakerscustombuilt-inb...lbar-white.gif style: .highslide-controls
404 Not Found https://cabinetmakerscustombuilt-inb...ack-border.gif style: .dark .highslide-controls, .dark .highslide-controls ul, .dark .highslide-controls a
404 Not Found https://cabinetmakerscustombuilt-inb...rollarrows.png style: .highslide-thumbstrip-horizontal .highslide-scroll-up div
404 Not Found https://cabinetmakerscustombuilt-inb...files/icon.gif style: .controls-in-heading .highslide-heading
404 Not Found https://cabinetmakerscustombuilt-inb...hite-small.gif style: .controls-in-heading .highslide-controls a
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Originally Posted by
Acorn
A 'gremlin' would be offended if it were labelled a troll.
:)
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Hi Again. These aren't broken links. You have no broken links. Broken Link Checker Tool looks for html links written such:
<a href="url">link text</a> and checks to see if the link is valid.
What you have are missing images. These missing images seem to be part of HighSlide which is included if you have a small image on the site that when you mouse-over or click loads a larger image. Your site doesn't use HighSlide from what I can see. These images aren't within your https://cabinetmakerscustombuilt-inb...ndex_htm_files files folder so I don't know what program your using to find missing images that you're not using.
By the way access to your index_htm_files folder shouldn't be available like yours is for security reasons ;)
EDIT: Yes, the call's for HighSlide images is on your video page. Why something is calling for these assests and they're not available on your site is probably down to the code you're using to invoke the youtube videos.
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Thank you Egg Bramhill for such an excellent and detailed reply!!!
May I ask, have I posted something on this forum that I should not have for security reasons?
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No, not here (on this forum) it's that your asset folder of your website (which contains all your .jpg, .png, .css files etc), which Xara creates on your server named 'index_htm_files' should not be open for public viewing due to security issues.
If you try to open mine on my webserver at https://www.parkeston.com/index_htm_files/ you get a 403 Forbidden notice but if you try yours at https://cabinetmakerscustombuilt-inb...dex_htm_files/ you can view it's content.
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Egg Bramhill
Egg, listing the directory index itself is not a vulnerability and is not a security risk in itself. Instead, it could assist in locating and exploiting some other security vulnerability on the site. If you have no such vulnerabilities, then the index does not add any risk on its own.
In your case, you would also have to block xr_files.txt being accessed and I have no guarantee Xara does not need this.
Acorn
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Thanks, Acorn and Egg
It sounds like I'm safe but I'm just a cabinet maker who built his own website and some of the talk you talk is like a foreign language to me sometimes so please excuse me if I ask you to rephrase another way.
Anyway, Acorn seems to know that I am secure with what little I have.
I'll keep picking at it concerning your suggestions and make it better.
Thank you, group!!!
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Thanks for the clarification Acorn. I always had my index_htm_files folder opening as per Agains, and it often cam in useful but my ISP insisted that the file was unavailable in that manner and insisted it was changed, which they did for me. Therefore I have followed their advice. Thankyou for the clarification.
I take it the xr_files.txt is a file updated bt Xara each time the site is published, thus knowing which files to keep and which to delete?
