Bullet Points in Articles
From the author support emails today, Peter asks, “How do I get bullet points to show up in my ezine articles? They’re there when I create my article and then disappear when I cut and paste into your form.”
The first fundamental problem is that you are copying from MS Word directly into our article submission interface. This is a mistake unless you’ve already disabled smartquotes. Better to copy/paste from a true text editor (MS Word is not a text editor).
The answer to your question: You need to include UL and LI tags to form bullet points. The cousin to HTML bullet points is a numbered list: OL and LI tags. UL gives BULLETS, OL gives NUMBERED LISTS. Hope this helps.
3 Quick Steps To Adding BULLETS To Your Article:
Step 1) Copy and paste from WORD to your favorite true text editor. I use EditPlus. UltraEdit, Notepad, and Notetab are popular choices.
Step 2) Add the UL and LI tags, any B tags or I tags amd remove any smartquotes you left in there by accident.
Step 3) Copy and paste from your text editor to your EzineArticles article submission interface.
Done. You’ve got bullets.
Its a shame that the grammar and spelling check in word is so fantastic but then its impossible to easily transfer formatted text to the web, they should really fix that. I hate relying on notepad.
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