If you ever get asked to guest post on someone else's blog, and that might be some of you soon... stay posted for that!... it can be tricky to send everything to the blogger. If you've ever tried to copy and paste text from a Word document into a blog post, you'll know what I mean! The formatting goes all weird, the spacing is off and then the blogger has to fix it all, insert photos, check the links, etc. There is a much easier and quicker way to do it!
1. Write the blog post, including all the links and photos, on your own blog as if you were going to hit Publish on it.
2. Once you're all done, open Notepad from your Start menu. You might need to search for it.
UPDATE: For Mac users, you want to use Text Edit.
UPDATE: For Mac users, you want to use Text Edit.
3. Go into the HTML section of your blog post. Highlight all the text, copy, and paste into Notepad.
4. Save the file, then email it to the blogger. The blogger then copies and pastes the text from Notepad across into their blog post and voila! All the links, images and formatting will be there properly, ready to publish.
You can now find all my blogging tips in one easy-to-find spot on my Blogging Tips page!
4. Save the file, then email it to the blogger. The blogger then copies and pastes the text from Notepad across into their blog post and voila! All the links, images and formatting will be there properly, ready to publish.
You can now find all my blogging tips in one easy-to-find spot on my Blogging Tips page!
Great! A quick question though- I have a Macbook- Is their a similar thing to Notebook there? Could I just use a Word document? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great tip!
ReplyDeleteThank you - again! - for a great tutorial. I so appreciate that you take the time to share this stuff!
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