Trials of posting on the forum... all formatting breaks, anybody got any advice?

[MadBen]

I tried pasting from word - it broke the paragraphs. I tried xml/html - it keeps the tags as text. How the heck can I post my raw format (hml, only simple p,b,i-tags with align attribute) without having to edit for a painful 20min each time? I would much rather use that time writing.

Any advice would be most welcome and would meet with my heartfelt gratitude

[JosephB]

When posting, click "Advanced." In the formatting icons above the text box -- fourth over, you'll see a little "W" for Word. Click it, and pop-up box will appear. Paste your Word text into the box and click OK. Your formatting should hold.

[MadBen]

Tried that, it gives me a new box for posting the stuff in where everything looks fine up to the point when I press the button below and it is all pasted into the main reply textarea without paragraphs and without alignment.

Wish I could just use plain old basic HTML's <p>,<b> and <i> - those can be put in even with plain text and work as intended ^^;

Will try it once more with Internet Exploder, even though I really hate that browser-wannabe thing (especially since I don't use Windows half the time).

EDIT: Oh and, of course, thanks for the reply! It might not work but you have my thanks