How to Post

[BobHuddleston]

 When I post directly, as with this message, it appears properly. But, if I compose in word and paste, the message is preceded by lots of internet garbage. What am I doing wrong?

[ttrigg]

Bob:

I use MS Word for most of my postings, as with this one. When I'm ready to post I do "Ctrl-A" to select all. The "Edit" -> "Select All" route does strange things. When pasting into the forum my system goes hay-wire (Vista) when I try the "Ctrl"-"V" paste so I click on the little and get "clutter free" postings. The other paste icon acts up, but I think it is the "Vista" op sys that is fudging things up.

[g. gage]

Howdy Bob, I use MS Word with XP. I compose in word then block the text and click copy. Now go to the forum and click where the text will start, right click and click on paste.

 

Hope this helps, Rob

 

[ttrigg]

Bob:

To get a better grip on what is happening on your end please answer the following.

Version of MS Word?

Version of Windows, (XP, XP pro, Vista home, pro, etc.)?

Browser, IE7, firefox etc?

[gbbari]

For what it's worth, I use a Mac with OS X and the browser is Safari ver. 4. When I post here I have to insert html tags for paragraph breaks else my post appears as a solid block of text.

It's a real p-i-t-a but I'm used to it now.

Al

[BobHuddleston]

 Tom,

 I tried pasting with the icon and thse doesn't work -- see my latest at Bachmann Customer Service. :>(

I am using MS Word 2003, with VISTA Pro. Usually I use Firefox but I just checked, logging in on Explorer and find the same hypertext preceeding my message.

[ttrigg]

Bob;

Just talked to son-in-law (he is a sys-op for Marine base network). He believes it is a conflict between Word 2003 and the system running this site. According to him, W'03 has strange conflicts with many other environments. He suggested for you to try Notepad, compose in W'03, copy & paste to Notepad, save, close, open and copy to the forum. Since Notepad works in ASCII it will not contain the "header instructions." Sounds like a hassle to me, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

[gbbari]

Suggestion # 3 - You might try using the little built-in word processor application called "Wordpad" that comes with Windows. To open Wordpad, click Start, then All Programs, then Accessories, then Wordpad.

It's "Notepad" on steroids - with more features like the ability to compose in Rich text, but it doe not have all the compatibility troubles of MS-Word.

Other wise, Notepad is the cleanest application to use. You really don't have to double hump your writing through Word then into Notepad as indicated above (not sure why that was suggested other than possibloy for spell checking in Word). Just compose directly in Notepad and then copy and paste it into the reply block in this forum. No, you don't get a spell checker in Notepad or Wordpad - just do your own spell checking as you go along or before you post..

AL

[ttrigg]

gbbari

You really don't have to double hump your writing through Word then into Notepad as indicated above (not sure why that was suggested other than possibloy for spell checking in Word).

Exactly why I added that step.  If you do not need or want the spell check, then skip the "Word '03" step.