Copy and Paste in Blogger

Some people might want to use their previous post to create a new one - I have a client who wants to do just that.

I tried to copy and old post and paste into a new Create Post compose screen. The words were all there but the fancy formatting - emboldened text, bulleted text, font-size changes, etc. - were all lost.

I asked a fellow Blogger blogger who tried it and all the formatting was copied, in exactly the way my client wanted. What am I doing wrong? Nothing, really. The answer was, as is so often the case these days, my choice of browser.

I use Internet Explorer browser (like 73% of the world) but she is using Mozilla Firefox (about 20% market share*).

* Source: Market Share

Using Internet Explorer 7, copy and paste between Blogger screens loses all formatting, even new-line/paragraph. Using Firefox (I occasionally do, v 3.0), the formatting is retained. Yet another reason to make Firefox my primary browser, and IE7 my secondary.

And another way, of course, would be to copy/paste the HTML code, and not the text as seen in the Compose screen.