I'm new to wordpress. When I paste my short stories onto my blog from word, the formatting is gone. Why?

Question

My short stories become one long story with no paragraph endings and beginnings. It's all one long paragraph now. Is there a way to paste stuff from word onto your blog so that you don't lost your formatting?

Answer 1

If wordpress has "Save in html" or "save as web page" option, you might.

The blog ignores the wordpress codes, and takes it as plain ascii

you will probably need to use "show codes" option for your word display, so you will be sure to select everything that needs to copy....

Answer 2

Before pasting your stories into your blog paste it into notepad first then copy and paste it to your blog this will remove your microsoft word formatting which is the bit that your blog does not understand