one of the big problems is pasting in a diary i’ve composed in word. given a few facts such as i) that i haven’t yet made the necessary transition from the loud megaphone at my.firedoglake to boutique blogging, ii) my diaries tend to have loads of links (and be on the long side) and iii) i provide possibly too much information in hopes that they’ll be kept as reference, or at least some of the time. in word, there’s a way to grab a link from any site, paste it into word, make it into a hyperlink by pressing Enter, then click control and click on the link, causing it to boot up in IE. after that, word has a feature that includes highlighting a few words, then clicking into ‘recently browsed pages’, searching toward the top, and clicking on the url, which then gets embedded into those words.

having to recreate the links in the drupal software would take far more time and confusion than i can handle. i’d thought somehow that there was a drupal function that one could use to paste in html/text, and it would revert to Visual in preview. i was wrong, of course.

i couldn’t find a way to embed tweets, and since i do post social justice movements a lot, i’ve come to rely on the immediacy of tweets, and the art, of course, is all in the commons, thus free to use. now i don’t know how appropriate those would be for your site, nor do i know how much bandwidth tweets and videos eat up. come to that, i don’t know if others here already cover a lot of them: police state protests, strikes (often global), tpp, nato, and so forth.

i tried the ? help menu, but it seemed to simply restate the functions of the various features in the menu bar (?) above the composition bar. when i read further into Easy Copy, i was confused by the terminology like All Tabs, but there was something about being able to copy html code *if blogging software would accept it*. i’d thought maybe that meant that Easy copy might be able to help tame the drupal, say, into accepting that, so that i could use the text tab in my café posts to enter that, and presto! it would all be there.

anyhoo, some of my diaries look like this, with many links. well, the one i chose has some tweeties, as well. and i do hate to say that if i can’t recreate a post at your good site at least semi-simply, i may just have to accept that. oh, and in the recent diary i kinda/sorta posted bits of, i could only even get one video to embed, but i got two to embed in a comment, oddly enough.

but ye gods and little fishes, please don't spend oodles of time trying to sort me out.