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June 09, 2005
Question marks, always question marks
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 12:09 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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I 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 09, 2005 01:20 PM
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I don't think Courier will fix it.
Notepad or Wordpad should work. Word uses far too many non-standard characters.
Notepad or Wordpad should work. Word uses far too many non-standard characters.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at June 09, 2005 07:03 PM
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I 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 09, 2005 09:44 PM
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I use the little box on the MT compose page and save as draft frequently.
Posted by: Susie @ at June 10, 2005 12:35 PM
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I 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.
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 PM
Posted by: Harvey @ at June 10, 2005 07:16 PM
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I 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.
I use Normal, Times New Roman, when composing in Word.
Posted by: Bou @ at June 11, 2005 02:22 AM
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I 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...
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...
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