help with spacing issue?

[medulla]

okay so maybe i'm just being particularly thick or something, but whenever i post an update from my computer (i use Mac Pages/Word for Mac) by copying and pasting into the box, it appears fine, but then the paragraphs get double spaced once i hit "post".

the majority of the time i can fix it manually (going back to edit the chapter, removing the extra spaces between paragraphs) but sometimes, no matter how many times i save it, it goes back to being spaced and it's doing my head in, because i have to sit there trying to fix it however many times and it still doesn't work?

i tried converting to Plain Text and all of the HTML showed up, i've tried using the convert from Word thing and the same thing happens... any suggestions?

[heather]

The easiest way to avoid that is by simply using the HTML option. It takes longer, but it's easier to code those things than to go back and have to edit because of the quick options. I also don't upload it from my computer, but copy and paste the text with the HTML into the box. Again, takes longer initially, but saves time and stress later.

[bex]

ah, so generally this is a completely html issue where you have particular paragraph formatting applied when you transfer from word - if you check your html, this means that you don't have simply a <p> before all of your text, but something that looks like <p style="....">!! this means that you have particular settings coded into your html that 'fixing' manually won't get rid of because you're still not altering the code!!

to deal with this, usually i put my text into the editor on 5sosff, and then i open the html!! afterwards, i copy the html into textedit and use the 'find all and replace' option to change all of my <p style="...."> into just <p> and this fixes the problem!!!

i hope this helps!!!!

[medulla]

ahh, thank you so much! i've been going crazy over this for weeks x

[medulla]

okay, sorry to be a pain in the ass, but I tried it... it has <p style blah blah > on mine and even replacing it didn't fix it? help?!