Exporting text - Format problems

**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.

**petner** · 06 May 2011, 12:50 AM

Hi blekk,
no, I'm not in a hurry but I'm looking for a way to do this on a recurring basis, so I'm looking for some solution for my work flow. It's weird, I would have thought pasting into Word would work, but it doesn't.

**covoxer** · 06 May 2011, 06:07 AM

Originally Posted by blekk

covoxer: I tried MS Word - not working.

What exactly is not working? It works perfectly here. It also works with WordPad or any other editor capable of handling RTF.

**jeb** · 09 May 2011, 08:00 PM

This may be a little off topic but something I found I had to do with D6 Pro and WD7 that I never had to do with XX5. When I have an object - say a graphic or whatever, in XX5 I just put the text as I wanted it and it would upload and display correctly.

In the other programs, if I don't group the text with whatever it is on the formatting is messed up - text is much larger in size and does not stay on the object as placed. Took me a while to realize one has to group text in the web programs to get it to show "as is" in the program. - jb

**petner** · 06 May 2011, 12:48 AM

Yes, I tried copying directly from WD7 and my website and it does n ot preserve the formatting. Additionally the links are gone.

**petner** · 06 May 2011, 12:52 AM

BTW covoxer, if you have a moment, you might give it a shot - copying text from my site and see what happens: www/the247newsroom.com. I just can't get it to work directly into WordPress, or by trying to use MS Word.