I’ve set up a blog for our marketing people to start actually putting some content on our company website, and the first thing they did was complain that their first post looked strange on the blog.
Hmm, says I and had a look at the source. Full of Microsoft proprietary style information. I realised pretty quickly that he’d pasted it in from a Word document. Why? I don’t know, I really don’t. I though the Wordpress WYSIWYG was pretty user-friendly. Clearly only Word is inside the comfort zone at the moment. This will change, eventually, but in the meantime, there is a hidden feature in Wordpress 2.1 (I’ve not upgraded yet!) that will make life easier for my marketing guy.
In the visual editor, hit alt-v (IE) (alt-shift-v in Firefox) and you get a sekrit menu appear, one of the options being ‘paste from Word’. So clearly he’s not alone in his clinging to Word as an editor…
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Wow, didn’t know that one. Then again, I’m extremely unlikely to be using Word to compose anything for Wordpress. Gvim maybe, but not Word.
There you go, tell them all that they must learn Vi. Maybe they’ll all quit and you can have some peace.
Hah! I can only imagine the yells of anguish that would ensue if he tried using Vi. Hell, it annoys *me* and I know how to use it!
I have to say I don’t tend to use GVim (although I do have it installed) – my editor of choice is EditPlus as it doesn’t make me angry. Vi is an acquired taste, I think. I can tolerate it, but for the most part I prefer not to..