Exporting text - Format problems

**petner** · 04 May 2011, 10:07 PM

Hi Folks, perhaps somone can point me in the right direction. I would like to export text from my website (I'm using Designer 7) and paste it into a WordPress blog.

The problem is this, after I copy the text I can't seem to paste correctly into WordPress....or anywhere else including a Word doc.. It loses all the text formatting and the links I have embedded are lost.

I suspect that I'm doing something wrong and how I paste the text to begin with in Web Designer 7.

Any ideas, suggestions?

My website is http://www.the247newsroom.com

Thanks
Tom Petner

**covoxer** · 05 May 2011, 05:16 AM

Are you trying to copy the text from your page in a browser or directly from WD?

**petner** · 05 May 2011, 11:04 AM

Hi Covoxer, I'm trying to copy it directly from WD7. When I do that it just won't copy over. Then I tried copying it directly from my site (http://www.the247newsroom.com) and it copies over and the links are there, BUT the formatting is gone. It's just a continuous string of sentences.

**blekk** · 05 May 2011, 12:00 PM

Unfortunatelly - to preserve integrity and allow to freely manipulate - Xara "chops" all text You write. It produces design where every line has it place - it's suited for "static" sites.

To "extract" text with links one should write a script to "glue" lines in paragraphs, and to "see" when paragraph ends. As in source:

fall - said prosecutors confirmed she was never 
told of her right to remain silent or call a lawyer.”
The hot debate in newsrooms and across the Web is whether to air or not to

first to lines are in one paragraph (210 - 193 = 17 px between them with text size) - and next line is new paragraph (243 - 210 = 33px)
Also remember text formating: so here - xr_s14 is "normal", xr_s17 is "italic" (in fact there should be instead)

Not so semantic, as one can say - but it is always something for something.

One script will fit it - if all are formatted same way.

**petner** · 05 May 2011, 03:33 PM

Thanks for the reponse blekk, but I'm afraid you lost me back at 'unfortunately.' On a good day, I might consider myself a power user, but most days I'm far from an experience IT person who can 'write a script.' Among the confusion, I'm not sure what WD7 producing design for a 'static' site has to do with it?

**covoxer** · 05 May 2011, 03:50 PM

Try following.
Copy your text in WD and paste it to MS Word. Then copy the text in Word and paste into WordPress.

**petner** · 05 May 2011, 06:41 PM

thanks covoxer, I'll give that a ty.

**petner** · 05 May 2011, 06:50 PM

I just tried pasting from both WD7 and again off my website. In each case, all the text is copied, but itcomes out as a continuous stream of text without the individual line formatting and without the links.

And, as I may have mentioned, when I copied off my website and directly into WordPress, all there links and copy are there, but without the inidividual line breaks...it was again a continuous stream.

Any other ideas?

Does this have anything to do with the way text is posted initially into WD7?

Somewhere...I believe I spotted it here on the boards...some discussion about adding something and that 'something' I don't recall - to maintain the formatting.

As a side note, I had a guy complain to me that he tried to copy an article off my site and while all the text was there, it was the same situation - when he pasted the text into Word none of the original formatting was there.

**covoxer** · 05 May 2011, 07:54 PM

Have you tried to copy from WD to MS Word? This does preserve everything including formatting and links.

**blekk** · 05 May 2011, 08:14 PM

When do You need this? Are You in hurry? If I find some free minutes I can do it for You - if you find no solution. But rather next week.

covoxer: I tried MS Word - not working.