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Copy and Paste Posts

Since the taxes are done and Leann is napping again I thought I’d squeeze in a little info on my experience trying to post a pre-written document. The biggest issue was with the pics. They don’t copy and paste like the text. This turned out to be a huge annoyance and limits you when trying to do most of your work off line.

Let’s say, for instance, that Christine decides to set up a page on this blog specifically devoted to her craft promotion. Instead of working in the confines of this WordPress venue she decides to prepare it in, let’s say Word, where she doesn’t have to be online and has a little more visual space to work with. Pictures, prices, contact information, everything could be worked on and set up there with just a simple copy and paste seperating her efforts. At least one would hope that would be the case. The pictures won’t paste, so here was the easiest way I found to get your document looking the same here as the way you originally set it up.

Once the document is finished, and you’ve saved the original as a DOC file, click the save as option. Select the save as option that converts it to a Web Page, Filtered. This saves the document as an HTM file and creates a folder of the pics in the re-sized version that they appear as within your document. You’ll see the pics when the file appears after opening it in your browser because they’re being drawn from the folder but the pics will be smaller file sizes of the ones you compressed or resized  in your original document. Have I lost you yet? For example: All the pics in Ryan’s letter added up originally to about 7 megs. Word converted the pics into copies stored in a folder totaling about 400 K. This will make for easier and faster uploading without having to resize them all individually yourself. So now you’ve double clicked your HTM file and it opened up in your browser. Right click and select all then right click again and select copy. Paste it now in WordPress. You won’t see the pics yet but the layout of your text is the same as if they were in there. Now you put your cursor just after the positon where the invisble pic is and backspace. It should backspace just like it deleted a whole pic. Now go to insert an image in Wordpress and browse on over to that folder that was created for the document pics. The file names will all be numbered according to the order they sat in the document. Upload and add to your post.

It sounds like a pain in the ass, and it was, but I got my document to look exactly the way I had originally intended it to look without having to re-edit the whole thing. Another insignificant annoyance, but worth mentioning, was that after each photo addition the WordPress editor goes back to the top of the page. It’s not a huge problem unless your working on a large document, like Ryan’s letter, and for 24 pics you have to keep scrolling back down to find your place.

There’s probably a better way, we’ll find later, but this turned out to be the easiest after trying several different methods. Oh well, it works for now.