Issue with upload

[staciliv]

Hopefully someone can offer some guidance. I have emailed Support but so far no answer.

I'm trying to upload a story. The upload instructions say MS Word (.doc) format is accepted, but i can't seem to make it work. Whenever I upload my story it doesn't get parsed or posted. I've tried uploading only a portion, thinking the whole story was too long, but that doesn't work either.

In the past i exported stories as text files then uploaded those, but that's a lot of work: For some reason blank lines are ignored and so I have to edit through the whole thing on the website adding blank lines.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions to either the .doc upload issue or the blank line issue I'd really appreciate your assistance. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!

 

[Duil2]

Hopefully someone can offer some guidance. I have emailed Support but so far no answer.

I'm trying to upload a story. The upload instructions say MS Word (.doc) format is accepted, but i can't seem to make it work. Whenever I upload my story it doesn't get parsed or posted. I've tried uploading only a portion, thinking the whole story was too long, but that doesn't work either.

In the past i exported stories as text files then uploaded those, but that's a lot of work: For some reason blank lines are ignored and so I have to edit through the whole thing on the website adding blank lines.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions to either the .doc upload issue or the blank line issue I'd really appreciate your assistance. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!

I've always been successful in uploading MS Word .RTF files for my stories so since you're already using MS Word why not try saving your file as .RTF (rich text format) and see if it will upload for you.
It should look something like the below.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Hopefully someone can offer some guidance. I have emailed Support but so far no answer.

I'm trying to upload a story. The upload instructions say MS Word (.doc) format is accepted, but i can't seem to make it work. Whenever I upload my story it doesn't get parsed or posted. I've tried uploading only a portion, thinking the whole story was too long, but that doesn't work either.

In the past i exported stories as text files then uploaded those, but that's a lot of work: For some reason blank lines are ignored and so I have to edit through the whole thing on the website adding blank lines.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions to either the .doc upload issue or the blank line issue I'd really appreciate your assistance. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!

There won't be any preview text or anything in Story Text if you do a file upload, per @Duil2's screenshot, which seems to be what you're mentioning. Story Text is used for directly pasting in/writing into the text box. So even though you won't be able to see anything in Story Text or when trying to preview, it should accept it.

If that's still not working, you might want to try a .docx file or .rtf instead. The .doc file type is pretty old (though should still be handled I imagine), so see if that helps.

Hopefully that'll clear up your issue and you can get your story published. Good luck!