Funny;-)

But in addition to the WP 2.7, I've been playing with, setting up a new browser-Flock. Flock is an open-source browser, developed from Mozilla, like Firefox and Seamonkey (which I use). I used to use Flock periodically a couple years ago, but changed over to Seamonkey. Then, I recently read in WIRED that Flock's really developed into quite an amazing browser. So I went back took a look at it now, and have begun configuring its many components. OMG, it's remarkable. People really should at least take a look at it!

I agree though...like any change you've got to get used to it but it seems to be quite fine. For a moment I panicked and thought the forums were gone, but that fear lasted all of about 2.7 seconds.

net500cg

I don't notice this with the self-hosted WP's I have or my other WP.com blogs! Only on this new one.

I have scoured the FAQ's and the rest of the Forum discussions with a number of KEY WORD search parameters and nothing is mentioned about this. I have also tried to find - in the WP.com My Consol - and in the Forum, something that would tell me a 'switch' to activate or deactivate to bring the My Dashboard back down to regular size.

I've cleared the CACHE. Hard-booted the machine. And about everything else but send email to the Witch of Endore for help!

Doe ANYONE have a clue as to what it causing the case of gigantum flockus on My Dashboard????

Help in Hoosierville!

net500cg

Click here to check it out

There are known issues when trying to paste text from MS Word. If you are using the rich text editor then there is a special icon on the advanced tool bar which when clicked brings up a window where you can paste the text from Word and then insert it into your post. MS Word adds a bunch of extra code that can cause problems, and using this function in the rich text editor will clean things up and paste it as plain text.

Alternately you can paste the text from word into a text editor such as Notepad or Textedit (mac) first and then copy that text and paste it into your post.

http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/

What version of IE are you using and what operating system?

You can also download and use one of the offline blog editors available for Mac. Timethief has a great collection of them here: http://wpbloggingtips.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/offline-blog-editors-reviews/

I use Ecto and I'm quite happy with it. It can for some reason once in a while get some code doubled up and I have to switch to code view and take out the offending code, but for the most part it's a great program.

Another solution is to turn off the visual rich text editor (my profile, uncheck "use visual rich text editor" and then click "update profile) and do everything in code view but if you are like me, I find that confusing.

The site that I'm linking to is getting errors in their log because of the extra characters.

How can I stop this from happening? I'm using IE 6.0

What about the other problems though?

Don't mean to sound like I'm just excuse-making, but maybe I've just got a dodgy account/install/whatever? I might try deleting my entire account and starting a new one, if possible.

As for the confirmation email, I have. I'm able to change my Profile email address (under User) but not my blog one (under Options). Oh well.

I'm not stupid enough to do that on my blog! ;-) I just go on a lot of forums, which use [b] etc. I ALWAYS close tags in HTML/blogging though.

And I DID use the Code editor, that IS the problem. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.9.
An example of the problem is the last paragraph here:
http://jamesgibbins.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/firefox-the-essential-addons-part-i/
(Ignore the link, that was when I gave access to my friend to see if he could fix some of the problems).
The last paragraph should be split up - After "less school!" and "Get posting!". I tried in the Visual editor to add a space, but it never works. I think it works by adding paragraph tags, but surely the whole point of the visual editor is you don't have to go into the Code editor for simple things such as paragraphs!?
I also haven't got any of the links described above, because I manually changed them all in the Visual editor.

Sorry about the tone of the first post, just I wasn't in a good mood at all. :-)

Why did you put a STRONG tag in there and not close it? If you're doing the same on your blog, no wonder you have problems. Don't use tags if you don't close them.

Please give us a link to your blog so we can see it for ourselves, and tell us what browser and version you are using. Also; the Visual editor isn't designed for adding code, so click over to the Code editor to add code. That is why you're getting the first error.