Why not to use Word

Using any word-processor with our editor is not a good thing to do.
Microsoft Word is not a standard, everyone should not use it and our editor should not be expected to cope with what it produces. A Word document cannot be pasted into any other proprietary word-processor and look just the same - our editor is no different.

Here is why any word-processor - including Open Office - should not be used.

This text was written in Open Office then copied and pasted into our editor. Right now it looks okay.

If you click the HTML tab though you will see what the real code looks like:

That is what just 2 short lines produced. If you have written a long entry then it becomes a mess of tags - and if just one tag does not get closed properly - your page looks bad. It’s a LOT of tags there and you would need to dig through each one to find the unclosed tag.

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This is almost identical text written directly into our editor. It looks similar.

Clicking the HTML tab shows only a few tags:

Because there are less tags it is easier to see if one has gone wrong.

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We recommend that you:

• write directly to our editor
• use either a plain text editor then post to our editor and format the text
• use a desktop client

Just don’t use Word - or expect to see and have to fix mistakes.