Remember in the movie "The Sixth Sense" where the kid said "I see dead people?" On this new WYSIWYG set up I just thought I heard the kid say, "I see $#(@." Anybody else think that is funny? ;>

Barbara,

I just saw your write off, and everything looks fine. The links I checked on worked as well :)

Grace

yeah I'm good and annoyed. Had big issues trying to paste a review written in Word 2007 the other day.

Tonight I can't even post a review written in the Eps editor without 4 extra break lines between every paragraph. What the heck is going on? Why would Epinions sic this silly system on us when it clearly isn't ready to deal with new software?

I'm confused about the pros and cons sections.

Sometimes my pros and cons are surrounded by paragraph marks (leaving lots of blank lines), other times they are surrounded by line breaks (so their spacing looks "normal").

I can't figure out the inconsistency. Anyone have any thoughts on this phenomenon?

I've posted two reviews today (they're not actually posted yet, because I need to wait until their published on Curled Up, but they're basically all done), and had a lot of problems with the new editor.

I finally figured out what I needed to do, though. I was as careful as I could be about not "bolding" too much and all of the stuff that's been talked about in this thread. But when I get the HTML error, I just clicked on the "HTML button" and discovered a lot of gibberish (ok, I'm sure it means something to those who know HTML) about "End-ifs" and stuff like that. When I removed all that crap in the HTML editor, the review posted fine.

If you're still having trouble with that error, I'd suggest checking out the HTML and seeing if you have a huge block of useless HTML stuff in there. It's all in one block so it's easy to spot.

Mona, is the "End-if" stuff what you're talking about when you talk about "end of line characters" and the like? I admit my HTML knowledge is minimal.

Dave

My latest was held hostage for several hours while I tried everything I could dream up in order to get on with life.

The problem appears with the bolding of only one single character or, of course, a title line. I got rid of that problem by highlighting the whole draft then punching the B button twice. Swept any conflicting code clear and life resumed.
The ITALICS selections worked fine.

I noticed that the copyright 'bug' code will not work any more. Should we worry?

The extra line problem would not go away - I think a revision or update will have to be done by editing the word processor draft (be it in Notepad, Word, or Writer) and saving it as an HTML Doc. Highlight the whole thing and copy/paste into the epinions edit window.

I also think we should be paid $100 / hour for our furious efforts to fix these Beta Errors.

Changing/Saving as a .txt file sounds logical - that's where we were for years - no formatting allowed in the draft.

Hitting that HTML button opens a can of worms for sure.

Good idea.

Are you pasting from Word? And if so, what version?