I seem to have pretty good luck when needing responses when it comes to Windows Live Writer the blog editor from Microsoft; which if you run Windows and blog you really should be using. That is if you aren’t using it already and if you are then you may want to read this as well. Mind you this will only apply if you are using the newest Community Technical Preview (CTP) release from the team.
When I first installed the CTP release and started using it I couldn’t understand why some of my posts where being displayed with varying length of whitespace between paragraphs. The problem even came through on the RSS feed of the posts. Then one day I was switching between the Edit and Source display and I noticed multiple lines of the paragraph tags in my post – much like you see with the accompanying screenshot I took of a previous post.
For some reason when you are writing your blog post in the WYSIWYG editor view at very odd times and places the editor will insert anywhere from two to a dozen lines of these paragraph tags. Unless you switch to the Source display before publishing your post you won’t know they are there but your post on your blog will now have a nice amount of whitespace between the paragraphs.
So a word of caution to those of you using the CTP release – double check your Source display to make sure there are no unwanted paragraph tags and if there are just delete them. Also to the WLW team this is a great release with the exception of this problem so hopefully it’ll get fixed up in short order. Keep up the great work.
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thanks for keeping us informed on the situation. I was wonder if it was that as I was suspicous of insertin images and links
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One way I've been able to reproduce this issue, to get WLW to poke in extra P Tags, is through cut-n-paste (which I do allot).
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