A few minutes ago I published a blog entitled "How to post a blog entry"  In the blog I spoke a little about "washing" your text if you are writing it first in a word processing application, like MSWord.  I'll post it again below.

I probably should have included "any time you use a text box here on stephspace do this," in the title and tags.

Just a few short moments ago I went to watch the video Shaf uploaded, Stephanie at WVKO/Democratic Party night 3/1/08 I noticed this in the video's description:

Description:

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Here's a snippet from Stephanie's appearance at the WVKO/Democratic Party night on 3/1/08.  BTW, WVKO changed from a progressive talk format to Catholic radio programming, provided by Columbus-based St. Gabriel Radio on December 23, 2008.  As of this posting, Columbus is again without progressive radio.

Shaf hopefully as changed it by now. But when I saw it, it told me that Shaf had used a word processing program to write his description.

There is nothing wrong with that, I do it because currently there is not a spell check on the blog text box, nor does firefox spell check work on this right now.  This dooms me, and I'm sure for a lot of others too.

There is a problem with that.  MSWord (and other word processing programs) add a whole bunch of unneeded and unnecessary code for our purpose when you copy and paste.  In a blog post it makes the file way to large.  In a photo, video or audio description it gives you the kind of felder carb you see above. The only informational paragraph came at the end.

What one, you, anyone needs to do, if using a word processing program and then copy and pasting to Stephspace  is "wash" it before putting it here.

Fortunately that's really, really, easy to do.

Open "Notepad" or some similar application.  Copy your MSWord blog post and paste it in Notepad. Let the highlight of your words clear in notepad, then mouse over all your words in the notepad window and copy and paste to the text box on Stephspace.

Viola! Clean and you didn't even need Tide.

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