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Spacing issues reported when adding a story/chapter from Word doc

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(@jessicar)
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I have scrolled through many topics here, but all of the suggested fixes aren't working for one of my users.  She is trying to add chapters to a story, and is pasting from Word. She has tried the "W" clipboard, she has tried pasting directly into the TinyMCE box.  It looks like line breaks are being removed, so she has to go in manually to add them.

Also, the "underline" function isn't working, despite my having the "u" tag as an allowable one in my admin settings...

Thoughts?

 
Posted : 10/12/2017 6:14 pm
 Sue
(@sue)
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I had all sorts of issues with the TinyMCE box.

In this case, is the Word document using paragraph returns or "soft" returns?

Whatever the case, I would suggest a search and replace in the Word document:

Replace ^p
With ^p^p

(replace paragraph with double paragraph).

or in the case of soft returns

Replace ^l (or even ^l^l is she's using two)
With ^p^p

(replace soft return(s) with double paragraphs).

In other words, use two paragraph marks between paras and see if that works with TinyMCE.

I know, it's gruesome. Sorry but that's all I can suggest. I use these search & replaces all the time (^p is a paragraph, ^l is a soft return and ^t is a tab FYI).

Someone else may have the "real" answer, however.

 
Posted : 12/12/2017 1:01 am
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