IrishOboe

I didn't need to post the second one; I could tell just by creating it that even in plain text it picks up formatting being cut from Word -- but I think we can live with it; it's Word's way of being clever and does make formatting easier.

I haven't yet duplicated the weird font change problem; I'm guessing maybe it happens when you cut and paste different sections, as you do when you divide it into the teaser and the rest of the post. I'd suggest next time selecting all your writing with a, then cutting and pasting the whole thing into each section of the post, deleting the unwanted stuff once it's in plog. That should get all the formatting characters each time. Worth a try, anyway.

Does Word have an option to copy only the text, and not the formatting?
Also, you can turn off plog's WYSIWYG formatter, so then no formatting will be copied, unless you explicitly type in HTML, which perhaps is not what you want either.
You could write the posts in Notepad instead.

The older version of Word could do that; I can't seem to make it work in the new one. One other thing to try is use "reveal codes" (the little paragraph mark) to show you where the paragraph codes are, then make sure you include the paragraph's paragraph mark each time. That makes sure the paragraph formatting is copied -- if we can't get rid of it, maybe we can at least make sure you always get all of it, which may eliminated the random font changes.

The more I play with it, the more I realize having Word's formatting is not so bad. It make the HTML look complicated, but one of the things it's doing is preserving the double spaces at the end of sentences. No matter how loudly "they" tell me that with proportional fonts you're only supposed to use one space at the end of a sentence, it still doesn't look right to me, and makes it harder to read.

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