WordPress and Word a conflicting situation

Saturday, June 6th, 2009 at 9:21 am

Todays question

I have a few questions with differences in format between Internet Explorer and FireFox (logos in IE are partly covered by the sidebar, while in FireFox they are not). Also font options when I cut and paste from Word are automatically converted to the same font and size in the actual blog. This just started to happen a couple of weeks ago.

Two problems here but both have to do with Microsoft. The IE problem first.

Different browsers parse css differently. Until there is unanimity between browsers this will be an ongoing problem with some themes. Some style sheets add special code for IE that alleviates the problem but your theme obviously is not one of them. You can try contacting the theme author and see if they can add it or just change themes. There are thousands to choose from.

Copying your posts from Word always creates problems. When you copy you are also copying all of the formatting too. This causes the defaults in your style sheet to be overwritten.

Personally, I prefer to write my posts on Blog Desk which is a free desktop software that allows me to post directly from the desktop instead of writing them first in Word.

If you are going to use Word then you need to take an extra step. Copy your posts to a notepad text file first then copy from there to your dashboard. This will remove all the extra formatting that you picked up when copying from Word.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold