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Say Good-Bye to Formatting IssuesRate This Post:
Episode #10 in Gary’s “Top 10 Reasons for Article Rejection” video series! Believe it or not, simple formatting issues can cause an article to be rejected. To make sure this doesn’t happen to you, you should refer to the EzineArticles Editorial Guidelines… and watch this video! With the completion of this video, our friend Gary has finally reached the end of the series. Throughout his journey, millions watched, laughed, cried and discovered a LOT of really useful information. Make Gary proud. Watch this video to discover some common article formatting errors – and to say good-bye to this legendary stick figure. Gary will be back again someday, but in the meantime remember these key points to properly formatting your article:
To see all the videos in the “Top 10 Reasons for Article Rejection” series, surf over to our Video Archive page.
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The biggest problem is that most write their articles in Word and then cut and paste it into the submission box. They copy a lot of strange formatting too that can cause problems. Best is to copy it into Notepad first (or any other plain text editor) and check how it looks there, edit it there if necessary and then cut and past from there into ezinearticles.com Gunter [Reply] Comment provided July 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM
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Option A: If you use MS Word program, you should use the PASTE FROM MS WORD button on the WYSIWYG editor. Option B: Shut off the WYSIWYG editor. It’s in your account options. With this shut off, you can paste from word WITHOUT needing any “PASTE FROM MS WORD” button that gets rid of the hidden control characters Microsoft bloat includes with the copy/paste function. [Reply] Comment provided July 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM
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Ely, To see all the videos in the Top 10 Reasons for Article Rejection series, surf over to our Video Archive page. [Reply] Comment provided July 27, 2009 at 11:57 AM
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Great videos! I appreciate the effort EzineArticles has put into them. When I pasted from Word originally, a window would come up asking if I wanted to remove the formatting. (Yes, of course.) I don’t get that any more; so, there is hidden markup that clogs everything up! [Reply] Comment provided July 27, 2009 at 1:19 PM
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Internt T1: Guessing at your meaning here, but I’m guessing that this is what you mean. Web pages and word processors both use mark up languages – but not the same coding. With a web page you can see the markup and make changes or deletions. With a word processing document, you don’t see the mark up, which means that you can’t strip the coding you don’t want as easily. That means that when you copy and paste from a word processor, you can attempt to reformat, but random coding is still left in the backend. Hence, software that removes the coding. A program/module in the EzineArticles interface used to sense whether the pasted text had markup from MS Word and offered to strip it, but that doesn’t happen in my browser any more. Maybe I made an inadvertant change, and it could be that I always have multiple browsers open to test websites. In any case, there will always be problems copying and pasting into a web form for many, many reasons! And, hopefully, no one in their right mind will save a Word document as HTML. What a mess! [Reply] Comment provided July 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM
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Thank you for sharing all these fantastic videos and I personally do learn a lot of useful information.
Appreciate all the works that EzineArticles team has done to keep this fantastic website going. :)
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