Copy and Paste

[Zas678 he/him]

I notice than when I copy a really long post from Word, it randomly drops a few spaces. I don't know if this is Word's fault or IPBs, but is there anything I can do about it?

[Joe ST he/him]

I notice than when I copy a really long post from Word, it randomly drops a few spaces. I don't know if this is Word's fault or IPBs, but is there anything I can do about it?

write it in notepad, unless you're relying on some sort of wysiwyg conversion thing? if not, I'd say notepad is the way to go.

[Chaos he/him]

It's IPB's fault. There are a few formatting things that happen. For example, IPB can't render tabs without you using BBCode. It's a common problem with forums.

I second the use of Notepad (or, if you want something much better, use Notepad++. You get basic text editing, but with a tab interface, and a bunch of other useful features). Google Docs works pretty well for me, too. When you were typing in Word, what was the formatting that the forum borked on?

[Zas678 he/him]

The formatting was fine- it was spacebar that was being skipped. So if I copied this sentence fromword, it would looklike this. It doesn't do it all of the time, which I find odd. But next time I'll just use Google Docs or Notepad. Thanks!

[Chaos he/him]

The formatting was fine- it was spacebar that was being skipped. So if I copied this sentence fromword, it would looklike this. It doesn't do it all of the time, which I find odd. But next time I'll just use Google Docs or Notepad. Thanks!

That's really bizarre. That doesn't happen when I (rarely) paste from OpenOffice.

[KChan she/her]

It might be an artifact of the way Word does things. I've noticed problems on MBI where people who write their character applications in Word - Word specifically, that is, not OpenOffice or some other word processor - there are sometimes random issues involving line spacing getting borked up. This seems to happen more often with newer versions of the program, which does really bizarre things with spacing.

[Emeralis00 she/her]

It might be an artifact of the way Word does things. I've noticed problems on MBI where people who write their character applications in Word - Word specifically, that is, not OpenOffice or some other word processor - there are sometimes random issues involving line spacing getting borked up. This seems to happen more often with newer versions of the program, which does really bizarre things with spacing.

I was going to say that I get this a lot with my character profiles on the RP boards.

[Chaos he/him]

I strongly recommend Notepad++ for a basic text editor. Much more fully featured than Notepad.

[Kurkistan he/him]

I strongly recommend Notepad++ for a basic text editor. Much more fully featured than Notepad.

Second and third-ed. I've been using Notepad++ for my crazy-insane transliteration project with Turos, and I can't believe that I didn't make it my default text editor until now.

[Joe ST he/him]

Yeah NP++ works, which is a surprising attribute when it comes to software and Windows. Even Microsoft cant make software correctly.