Typepad bleg.

OK, I'm finally admitting that I have a problem.  I'm sure you've noticed how screwy my formatting is, and I apologize for being an eyesore.  

When I copy and paste stuff from the web into my box, it brings all the formatting with it (and a lot of that formatting bleeds down to the other stuff I write).  If I select it and click the "remove format" button, all the formatting goes away including the line breaks and the text runs off the right side of the page, and I can't get it to accept line breaks anymore.  Adding HTML "p" tags doesn't seem to fix it.  So the only way I have figured out to remove the formats (except for easy stuff like text color) is to go into the HTML and manually remove all the relevant tags that start with "span style."  This is a pain and I've stopped bothering with it beyond fixing things that make the post completely unreadable.  I haven't been able to find the fix in the Typepad help pages.

I work on an iMac, btw.  Can anyone help me out here? 

Comments

[SteveG]

Try to first paste the web text into something like notepad*. Since notepad* doesn't support rich formatting, it will automatically remove all the formatting from the text (color, font, size).

Once you have the text in it's 'plain' version, then copy/paste that into your post box, and it will be MUCH easier to work with.

*From what I can see, the iMac equivalent to notepad is this...
http://www.apimac.com/notepad/

Whatever you use, the point is to get the text into a plain text format before pasting it into your post.

[bearing]

Thanks SteveG. It's an inelegant solution but it does work (using TextEdit).