Now I have the same dilemma I had the other day. I just received another review for my write-off this morning and don't know if I dare take the chance of opening up the page to edit the thing so I can add it. Since the beginning of this new editor page I've had two experiences doing so. The first time for some reason I was able to add the new review with no problems....but the other day, when I tried with the second review everything went crazy and all my text,(my review) and all the submissions came out in one giant paragraph with all the Bold and Italics gone.

when I hit the back button twice it came back the way it was but appeared in my unpublished column, when I tried to publish again it wouldn't let me...I went back and took out all the bold and italics, even in my title, but it still didn't go through and my number of reviews went down by one while it sat as unpublished, I sent a bug report and mysteriously when I went to try to edit the thing again, the old "submit a review" page was there and I was able to fix everything and resubmit it. what I didn't change was all the links to the other members reviews

For a few hours I had the old page then it reverted back to the new editor...

I just don't know if I want to take a chance and do it again, any suggestions?

I was actually thinking of starting a new page to put the links on, like an essay or addendum to the write-off, or just close the write-off and forget about it...It would be impossible to put each review in the little HTML box on the new editer to get them perfect for submitting them. that is impossible for me without losing what little sanity I have...:)

So I decided to get a review in that I had saved and did go through the frustrations of editing.

I tried all different methods. It took me one hour then walked away and returned later. I tried what Patti suggested copying from notepad and removing all the the paragraph breaks, line breaks and can't remember what else but this morning I submitted it. Copying from Word did not help. This will slow down those that like a perfect review.

I don't know why submitting a review should be so difficult. I think they should have tested it out first. I'm not a programmer and I don't like the difficulty in submitting a review for a general user like me having to figure out all those "You have a opening without a closing" when I didn't use any of those < >. I haven't tried linking anything on my review but I'll wait maybe they will iron things out as people post here the problems.

Whew! That was laborious.

I use IE 7.0 with Windows XP professional edition. Micsrosoft Word 97. Wish this would be set up like email format with the things above the text box for bold, etc.

To those that are trying to learn it, kudos to you all. I didn't think it was that bad till I tried it.

Perhaps there was a special planetary alignment that I didn't hear about, but I wrote up my latest review in Word. I bolded the titles as I was writing and then I imported it with the Word function and the whole thing went off without a hitch.

Jeff

That's been my experience, as well. But we have to remember that there are different operating systems, different versions of Word, and different browsers out there. So one person's experience won't be the same as someone else's.

Forgive me if someone has answered this already. I'm trying to keep up with the thread, but there's a lot here!

How are you all doing links? I seem to be able to post basic reviews with bold and italics, but I can't get links to work. I used to just copy and paste them from a document in Word where I keep a list of coded links I use a lot. I've tried bringing them in via the Word button in the new editor, but they're not working. Mind you, I'm not getting any HTML error messages, but the code is just sitting there looking like code and not turning into links. Any suggestions?

I'm using MS Word with Firefox as a browser. Thanks much for any advice.
Beth

Thanks. I thought I had read something to that effect earlier. The problem is, I don't seem to have the option. The little "link" button seems to be grayed out.

Hmm. Lemme go try it again... :-) Slow and steady wins the race, they say...right?

Got it. Thank you, Jeff, and Rex too. I think I managed to make it work.

Of course, part of the problem right now is that it feels weirdly counter-intuitive, having spent the past five plus years learning how to plug html tags in manually. I suppose in the long run this will be faster, but right now it's actually taking me longer, not only to figure it out, but because of the way I've been storing info. in preparation for creating later links. Also having to cut and paste each link separately, when you have a list of links, is slower. But hey, it's done!