*** Pasting Text Into ABC ***

By admin

Wed, 16 May 2012
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This is pasted from Word 97:

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This is a paragraph

And this is another paragraph. There should be a space between them.

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This is pasted from Notepad:

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This is a paragraph

And this is another paragraph. There should be a space between them.

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It seems that the older the app you use, the more likely it is to keep the paragraph formatting. Best way to get around the paragraph problem is to save your work as plain text, open it in Notepad or Wordpad (or whatever the Apple plain text editor is) and paste it from there.

I can't guarantee results if you paste from Apple because it (probably) follows the Unix convention of marking new lines with a carriage return. (The Windows convention is to use a carriage return followed by a line feed.) If you have any problems, don't keep them to yourself. Leave a comment below (saying whether Windows or Apple, which app you're trying to paste from, and what the problem is.)

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Submitted by Sooz006 on
If I save as plain text (assuming I can work out how) is that going to mess with the format of my book? I'm so technologically inept that any change terrifies me. I hate the way my chapters appear, but would rather have them messed up on here than on my master. However, I suppose I could open a new document of the book and use that just for posting on here, but then there would come a time when I'd overwrite my master with the copy, so probably best not. Thanks Mr Admin.

 

Submitted by two_gents on

Snap??

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