What is up with this formatting?!

I checked your chapters. They all seem reasonably well formatted, as do your chapter summaries. Your book summary is a little screwy, but that's a quirk of the software.

I saw those. Thought they were intentional. Due to minor incompatibility between most word processors and other words processors (including the one on this site), you will generally get quirks like that.

Whenever I use indented paragraphs in my Word documents (e.g. the cardinal's phoney suicide note) those require me to manually go back into this site and manually indent them.

Try to avoid manually formatting anything in your master files, if possible. Use styles instead. That way you get fewer magic hidden characters copied over that the site doesn't know how to process.

I copy from WordPerfect into Word. Then from Word, I paste into the site using the little button on the toolbar for that purpose (the clipboard with the small W in it). Most of my formatting comes out intact. The only issues are my section breaks. I have to go back and re-center them. Otherwise, that's the process that works bestest for me. Once the text is in the box, you can select it all and apply a new font and point size.

Thanks, jack.

I guess I'm not the only one so it must be the system more than me. That's a good thing to know. I freely admit doing the techy thing is not where my talents lie!

I'll keep playing with it and if I find something that works, I'll post it here.

~Bobbie~

If you don't indent to start with, you won't lose them and presto you'll feel better that things are working properly. It's not just a site thing; when I copy and paste from Word to an email, the same thing happens. Just go with the flow and it will wash the stress away. Take care. Vern (technology ignorant)

HAHAHAHAHA!!

I think I got it figured out.

I copied my chapter from my MS Word file, then pasted it into another blank Word file as "text only." I made whatever formatting corrections I needed to in that file, then copied it and pasted into the system. The formatting came out great when I saved the chapter to the site!

And there was much rejoicing.....

You don't have to copy and paste into another document to change the format in Word. Just click "save as" and then change the document to whatever format you wish by changing in drop down menu and save that. You can always change it back or keep as your default format. Take care. Vern

Funny.  I haven't had any problems, and no one could be less tech savvy than I. I did have some difficulty when I first joined, and found that changing my browser (at Sol's suggestion) fixed things. Not that you're having the same trouble. I would ask him, and see where the problem lies.  JP