If you want to change them throughout your blog,

And thank you.

Really, the best way is to paste the text into the TEXT editor, which removes all formatting and tags, and then click to Visual and format it. It's a pain, but as you've seen, the Paste from Word button is not infallible.

I found myself going back to Visual from Text to fix a paragraph indent that disappeared. Then back to Text all the pp. tags were gone. I also noticed that the Preview doesn't offer an accurate idea of what it looks like when published.

I don't know what div mode is. But I did publish those particular pieces with "Heading 3" since I don't have the custom formatter to add font and size.

Must I avoid using the "paste from Word" feature? Will purchasing the Custom font toolbar help? I plan on posting a lot of stuff where I'll need to add paragraphs. I can't foresee having the patience to do this over and over.

In the visual editor, select all the text and then from the format/style pulldown at the left end of the lower row of tools, select "paragraph" and then update.

One thing to note is that the text tab will not show standard paragraph tags. I suspect the reason for this is to help avoid confusion for those not used to looking at a lot of HTML code. Paragraph tags with style attributes will show up in the text tab though such as:

<p style=font-weight: bold;">Paragraph text here.</p>

My problem is with switching from Visual to Text modes during the editing process. In my blog: I would start out making some changes in the Text mode and then switch to Visual to correct something there. When I switched back to Text I had lost all the revisions I made, such as paragraph breaks (
, italics, etc.. I had to go in and put them all in again--and this happened three or four times. You can imagine how much time that took.

I'm specifically referring to posts that begin with "Excerpt:..." prose as opposed to poetry. These are posts that I did copy in from Word using the Word paste button on the toolbar. I noticed that it's the same if you choose to post as "plain text."

I'm using firefox and do not have the Custom Editor. Thank you.

They did settle out of court though since the tech press pressed the "Big huge corporation suing a little high schooler" side of the case.

CNN when the case started.

CNN on the settlement.

Wikipedia

All legal.

It was legal for a kid called Mike Rowe who wrote code to have a site called Mikerowesoft.com too - until the guys at Redmond determined that people would get confused and mistake a one-guy site for a mega-corp (as you would!). They had no legal basis as far as I know to get the site but an xbox did the trick. That is way OT :)

Not a whole lot can be done on this. While squatting on actual trademarked names is illegal here in the States and elsewhere, typos really aren't.

Heck, perfect example. What they went through with the WordPress.com domain.

Think of a misspelling microsoft and at one point or another it's been registered as a domain, normally dissing MS and then bought out by MS or a C&D order issued against it.

Can I suggest you send this through feedback to guarantee that one of the admins sees it?

Ta.

It seems to have a single wildcard DNS entry that points the typo to a web redirection instance that pushes the browser to an ad/link page.

For instance typing in http://purpleslog.wordpess.com, redirects you to http://www.purpleslog.wordpess.com/index/index46.php .

Go ahead and try some random name like http://wfgiuerh.wordpess.com - you get the same effect.

WordPress.com folks...can you start the process to strip the owner of wordpess.com?

Thanks!