When pasting text from Microsoft Word, make sure you use the “Paste from Word” feature in the WYSIWYG editor. This can be done by clicking on the far right icon that looks like rainbow squares called “Show/Hide Kitchen Sink” (). This will reveal a second row of icons, one with a “W” for Word (). … Read more
If you run your page through validator it detects said broken characters as errors: Line 107, Column 116: non SGML character number 7 …or growth and convergence. Historians (Kennedy 1989) and international relat… I can actually see them on page in Opera v12, but not Chrome. Since your page source and web server advertise UTF-8, … Read more
According to the following page Live Writer can manage pages as of Beta2. http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/ Maybe it’s simply a case of waiting to use the newer version that includes page management? I don’t use WLW myself, but a quick google did garner the above link, so hope it helps.
You can make WLW upload images directly via FTP, you can set this up in settings of connection to your blog. However as long time WLW user myself I would strongly suggest you to try and make sense of media management in WP, even if it seems excessive at moment (it did to me for … Read more
Obviously as you have realised, something has changed since you updated your computer. May I suggest that you first of all, delete that WordPress blog from Writer, then attempt to add it again. If that doesn’t work, I would uninstall Writer and then re-install it, all worth a try. If its the 2011 version, you … Read more
In this post, the poster had a problem of HTML tags being stripped of their opening and closing brackets when posting in WP from WLW’. He explains the source of the problem, and his solution: The issue with the partially stripped HTML tags is a bug in libxml2. Specifically using anything less than PHP 5.2.9+ … Read more
Here is a WLW plugin that seems to do what you want, made specically for WordPress.com hosted blogs.