Formatting issues when editing within Rich Text module

Hi, I’ve run into the same problem a number of times so I did a simple experiment with your page (https://restartcda.com/legal/): copied 2 paragraphs of text and pasted them into a word processor on my Mac. The text had turned into one paragraph.

This tells me that your paragraphs could be separated by line feeds only, rather than a line feed/return combo. Another clue was the lack of spacing between paragraphs in your site’s page. I believe Windows and Linux/Mac systems use slightly different conventions for separating paragraphs, in case you’re hosting on Linux.

The result of this format is that WordPerfect’s editor thinks the entire text is one paragraph, and will apply any formatting to the entire text.

A simple solution might be to go back to your word processing file and find and replace all line feeds with carriage returns. If your word processor doesn’t let you do this, you could try replacing each paragraph marker with two of them. Another thing I do to avoid this problem is to always cut and paste my WP file into a text editor that outputs only simple text files, and then paste into my WordPress page from that text editor. (Or you could use the “paste as text” button on the WordPress editor, but I find this sometimes doesn’t work as well as just using a simple text editor on your computer first.)

And one iron rule I adhere to is to never paste directly from MS Word, Open Office or other word processors aimed at secretarial use.

I hope this works for you! 🙂

Yeah, your text would be in paragraph form when you copied it back into Word because Word recognizes the line feed as a new para, rather than a new line within the same para. When I did my little experiment, I used Text Wrangler, which is a stripped-down, text-only word processor for the Mac; not sure if it’s available on Windows, but you could find something like it I’m sure (maybe Notepad?). There are also word processors out there that will let you see your file in hexadecimal so you could check whether you have the right line endings. Or you could simply add a return after every paragraph within the WordPress edit page. If you do this, you’ll likely get what looks like a space and a half between paras: the half line-space will be the line feed, which you can simply eliminate if it bugs you. I’m convinced the root of your problem is that your computer uses Windows line endings while your server uses Linux line endings. Fortunately, it’s a simple fix. Cheers!

Hi,
Am having same issues as @rob2550, Nimble text editor seems to be inactive and am not able to make any form of edits whatsoever. From the above input by @glhq, I request for advice on a suitable text editor to work with now that I may not be able to copy and paste directly into the builder for further editing.
All trouble shooting ideas listed on various platforms didn’t work at all and all I did was get new installations and restart only to run into the same issues after loading content into the pages.

Help out please.