Blogger and Word Platforms are Not Compatible

By M. J. Joachim 

All those glitches! If only we had known! A simple notice from Blogger in the “Create a Post” or “Edit Post” window would have been nice! 

Suffice to say, Blogger and Word are not compatible. “Word and any other word processing program contains a lot of hidden formatting that isn’t compliant with the Blogger platform,” states Mishka Blogger, a top contributor on the Blogger Product forum. 

Types of Problems Created by Pasting from Word into Blogger 

• Dashboard Functionality 

• Post Disappearance 

• Removal from People’s Blog Rolls 

• Email Subscriptions Delayed or Not Received 

• Template and Design Glitches 

…and probably quite a few more!

Fixing the Problems and Glitches

1. Creating a New Post 
2. Paste from Word.
3. Select All. 
4. Click on the (Tx) button, located on the right side of the tool bar. 
5. Reformat post, using Blogger tools provided. 

Fixing Past Published Posts 

1. Edit your post. 
2. Select all. 
3. Click on the (Tx) button, located on the right side of the tool bar. 
4. Reformat post, using Blogger tools provided. 

Note, “If the format removal tool (Tx) doesn’t fix the issue, then you will have to copy all the text out of the post, into a plain text editor, and then once you are sure it is completely unformatted, you can paste it back in from the plain text editor,” explains Mishka. 

It is probably a good idea to check your sidebars, headers, pages and anywhere else you might have pasted from Word on your blog. While it is a painstaking and tedious process to remove all Word formatting, only to reformat using Blogger tools, it will make your blog much better in the long run. 

All those page views, all those adsense pennies, all those blog rolls not getting updates, all those emails not getting received… 

It’s a given, Google should have done a better job of communicating with its Blogger users! At least we know now. 

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