OK, I’ve identified one nuisance in Windows Live Writer: if you cut and paste text from a web page, there seems to be no way to get it to paste the text without the formatting coming along. There’s supposed to be a way; the Edit/Paste Special… dialog lets you specify that it shouldn’t include formatting. But it does anyway. And there doesn’t appear to be anything in the WLW help on it. Sigh.
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I’ve never used Windows Live Writer, but here’s a work around I’ve used with other annoying Windows applications that want to preserve formatting:
Paste the text into Notepad, then immediately re-copy (^A^C) then toggle over to the recalcitrant app & paste.
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In fact, that’s precisely what I did. Worked like a champ. Shouldn’t have been necessary, though.
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