Title: Problems with posting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problems with posting

 *  [tonibella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonibella/)
 * (@tonibella)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/)
 * Hello,
    When I write a post and hit “publish”, WordPress will only post a line
   at a time, and no formatting (links, blockquotes etc) at all. I’m going backwards
   and forwards editing and saving to get anything up, and can’t link to anyone.
   Has anyone got any suggestions about what to do? (By the way, I’m really not 
   very tech-savvy, and am just a user of WordPress rather than the person who installed
   it on my site, so I may have to ask some clarifying questions to anyone who’s
   kind enough to respond).
 * Thanks, Antonia

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 *  [Phil Johnston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnstonphilip/)
 * (@johnstonphilip)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/#post-571225)
 * Hey Antonia,
    What do you mean by only one line at a time?
 *  Thread Starter [tonibella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonibella/)
 * (@tonibella)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/#post-571373)
 * Hello Johnson Phillip,
 * I mean that I’m writing my post in notepad, copying one sentence or line (a few
   words) at a time into WP, hitting publish, then going back to notepad, copying
   the next few words, hitting edit, inserting them, hitting save, then going back
   to notepad, etc etc. It’s driving me crazy. And WP won’t accept any formatting
   at all, so my posts have no links, no blockquotes, no italics etc. Do you have
   any ideas?
 *  Thread Starter [tonibella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonibella/)
 * (@tonibella)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/#post-571449)
 * Does anyone have any ideas? It’s still doing it, and a blog without links is 
   utterly dreadful.
 *  [carewolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carewolf/)
 * (@carewolf)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/#post-571537)
 * We also have problems-we format our post in Word-and it looks like it’s right-
   hit save and it changes-color, font, size etc.
    Then the text increases and decreases
   on our sidebar-then slips over onto the page where it doesn’t show up so all 
   the navigation is gone. We have deleted the page and started over-that helps 
   sometimes. CareWolf [
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/#post-571538)
 * _**we format our post in Word**_
 * That’s a big mistake!
    Search around and you will see that it is NOT advised 
   at all. There are some work-arounds but you should get rid of Word when working
   wiht your WP installation.
 *  [ronchicago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronchicago/)
 * (@ronchicago)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/#post-571539)
 * tonibella, why aren’t you doing all your writing in the wordpress dashboard? 
   if you are editing/writing in notepad, why aren’t copying/pasting your entire
   article one time and then edit as necessary in the wp dashboard?
 * it is possible to paste an entire article in wp and add your links/blocks, etc.
   write from the dashboard.
 * do you have visual/code tag options in your dashboard writer?
 * i just did a forum-wide search = MS word and here is what moshu means = the first
   of many posts…
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/83952?replies=14](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/83952?replies=14)

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 * Last reply from: [ronchicago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronchicago/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-posting/#post-571539)
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