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quaerereverum

Senior Member
Persian
Hallo,

I can't undrestand the sentence.''You cannot post pre-formatted text in the message box because it will not conform to the screen boundaries.'' I typed in the wordpad and pasted it in the massage box. But, I got this massage. Could you please explain it to me.
P.S. I'm not a computer expert.


Thank you in advance.
Wikipedia says for "formatted text":

Formatted text, styled text or rich text, as opposed to plain text, has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colours, styles (boldface, italic), sizes and special features (such as hyperlinks).
Wordpad is a light version of MSWord. Its file does not only have text, it also has computer code that tells the text how it must appear; the latter is called formatting. If you copy and paste, then the pre-formatted code is copied as well and the text box does not like it.

To get round this, (i) do your work in Wordpad, (ii) copy and paste it into Notepad (iii) copy and paste it from Notepad into the text box. Notepad strips the formatting code away.
Thank you so much PaulQ and Sdgraham. Finally, I got it. I was confused, and ashamed since two times I got the same massage.
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