Please, somebody help me!
I usually write my posts in MS Word and then copy and paste them onto the blog. But everytime I do this, all my apostropies, quotation marks and pound (sterling) signs come out on the blog as ? because of Word's stupid formatting.
In order to fix it, I have to copy my post into another utility which strips out Word's funny characters and replaces them with the normal versions.
Any ideas on what to do so that I don't have to do this and can paste straight from Word?
Posted by Tris at June 9, 2005 12:09 PMI think that if you use the courier or courier new fonts it should be okay. Those should both be ascii compliant. Alternately, use Notepad like I do.
Posted by Jim at June 9, 2005 01:20 PMI don't think Courier will fix it.
Notepad or Wordpad should work. Word uses far too many non-standard characters.
Posted by Pixy Misa at June 9, 2005 07:03 PMI almost never create my posts in MT, I use notepad and then copy it in later. The downside to this is you have to manually put in tags for URLs etc. But notepad doesn't ever timeout your session, giving you endless time to finish the entry.
Posted by Oorgo at June 9, 2005 09:44 PMI use the little box on the MT compose page and save as draft frequently.
Posted by Susie at June 10, 2005 12:35 PMI generally either compose on the fly, or (if I've got something especially long) I'll compose in either HomeSite (or if'n I'm not on my own box WordPad/NotePad).
The advantage to HomeSite is that it'll color your tags for you so you can see what you're doing on the fly.
Posted by mhking at June 10, 2005 02:12 PMNoteTab Light, which I describe here:
http://badexample.mu.nu/archives/034873.php
Posted by Harvey at June 10, 2005 07:16 PMI always compose in word and have NEVER had this problem. Not on MUNU, anyway. I SOMETIMES had this problem with Blogger, but could never figure out why, since it was intermittent.
I use Normal, Times New Roman, when composing in Word.
Posted by Bou at June 11, 2005 02:22 AMI had the same thing happen to me when I first started out on *cough* BlogSpot - going from MS Word to the Blogger entry where I'd get garbage.
Someone told me to use Notepad or Wordpad and then cut-n-paste...it's worked every since.
Now I find myself not like Word and liking Notepad even more...
Posted by Mad Mikey at June 14, 2005 12:33 AMGreat to hear you’re doing so well .free software download
Posted by free download at April 19, 2010 03:33 AM