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rsdoran · Member · Jun 2, 2017 at 3:53 pm
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The site doesn’t tell me if I can download from Word or have to type my blog from scratch. I’ve written and edited hundreds of them, and it makes so sense to have to type them out again. I need help. Is there a tech help number do someone can walk me through this?

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yoga1103 · Member · Jun 2, 2017 at 4:03 pm
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Hi,

Are you referring to MS Word? Have you saved many blog entries in Word document format?

If yes, you could copy each entry and paste into the place given for “new post” on your blog.

You can login to your blog
go to “My Sites” then click the “ADD” button next to “Blog Posts” and copy paste your saved blog entries from Word document in the place given for post.

Click “Publish” and repeat the process for all your posts as many times you wish at a time.

– best,
timethief · Member · Jun 2, 2017 at 4:21 pm
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All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/

Have you read the Microsoft WORD support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/ ?

Have you also read Microsoft OneDrive Word Web App support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/word-web-app/?

Microsoft Word includes a lot of junk code and that’s why using Microsoft LiveWriter is preferred. https://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/

For copying and pasting from Microsoft WORD.

If you are copying and pasting from a word processing document like Microsoft WORD note that the paste as WORD button was removed last year. If you use the Paste as plain text button then a special cleanup process will run to remove any special formatting and HTML tags that may otherwise change your text.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

Go to > Dashboard > Settings > Writing and enable this setting:
Formatting
__ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”

http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php

*Replace NAME_OF_BLOG with the actual name of your site and then click to reach your dashboard.

If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages in a wordpress.COM blog see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/ Specifically see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/#extra-line-breaks

You can also use the pre tag. See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-i-get-rid-of-double-word-spacing?replies=21#post-2512371

If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph. If you are working in the Text or HTML editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.

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