I know that may sound like a funny title to you, but it is no laughing matter. If you use Word to compose your article, and then copy and paste into MT, depending on the option you use from Word, you can get anywhere from 10 to 300-some lines of code that is not necessary. Not only is it not necessary, some RSS readers cannot parse out that code - and them's fightin' words.
If you are not going to type directly into either the front-end or back-end text box of MT, use TextEdit on the Mac or WordPad on the PC. Seriously, do not use Microsoft Word. It really screws things up by putting in all kinds of random FONT and SPAN tags, XML that means nothing to anything but Microsoft Word.
Just don't use Word. Whatever you do.
If you are not going to type directly into either the front-end or back-end text box of MT, use TextEdit on the Mac or WordPad on the PC. Seriously, do not use Microsoft Word. It really screws things up by putting in all kinds of random FONT and SPAN tags, XML that means nothing to anything but Microsoft Word.
Just don't use Word. Whatever you do.
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