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I really do. I spent over an hour writting an update for my group (that just turned two which is a real accomplishment on here) and I finally finish so I decide to do a spell check. The spell check using the editor was a hassel. It would not scroll down so I could see the word that I supposedly missspelled. Having gotten frustraited with this after the third time I decided to copy it and paste it on a word document to I could do a spell check. BIG MISTAKE! I highlighted the entire thing and the second I clicked on copy, the ENTIRE article dissappeared. POOF! GONE!

This is only one instance that it has givin me a problem. Sometimes it wont let me edit an article and other times it won't let me post them period. Who esle has had issues with the editor? Do you think it's time we get an improved version, or perhaps write them the oldway without the special editor and make them just how we used to make a post?

[Edited on 09.10.2007 10:40 PM PDT]

  • 09.10.2007 10:39 PM PDT

Posted by: Noge
I really do. I spent over an hour writting an update for my group (that just turned two which is a real accomplishment on here) and I finally finish so I decide to do a spell check. The spell check using the editor was a hassel. It would not scroll down so I could see the word that I supposedly missspelled. Having gotten frustraited with this after the third time I decided to copy it and paste it on a word document to I could do a spell check. BIG MISTAKE! I highlighted the entire thing and the second I clicked on copy, the ENTIRE article dissappeared. POOF! GONE!

Heh, yeah, it'll do that to you sometimes. It works fine if you just type the article up in MS Word first, then copy and paste it into the news box. If you're dealing with insanely long paragraphs, it's usually best to copy and paste them one paragraph at a time. Then, before you make any fancy HTML additions, do the HTML Tag Stripping so that you don't get that annoying "Invalid HTML" message and have to replace all of it.

It probably could be easier, but it's not really extremely bad.

  • 09.11.2007 12:56 PM PDT