Problem when submitting story: loss of all spacing.

[Rozalin_0123]

So I've finally finished my story for the Halloween Contest and I saved it as a .doc file. Now when I paste the whole thing in the submission box it is all one big block of text.

So my question is, how can I fix this without having to re-space everything in the submission box? I imagine my problem has to do with the document being saved as a .doc and not .txt but when saving the document as .txt the spacing is lost again.

I really don't want to re-space 150+ pages....

 

[Hypoxia]

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[handysr]

I imagine my problem has to do with the document being saved as a .doc and not .txt but when saving the document as .txt the spacing is lost again.

I really don't want to re-space 150+ pages....

That sounds about right. And wow, that's a huge freakin story - since most people won't start a story that has 75 Lit pages, will this be a 10-chapter story?

Anywho, back to the issue. I believe that if you were to change the format layout of the document, that should preserve your spacing. Alternatively, try saving as different formats (RTF, etc). Are you saving it as a .txt from word, or are you doing a copy/paste into notepad? Whichever way it is, maybe try going the opposite way.

If the format layout doesn't play nice, try this tip.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You need to set Word as follows...

Then were the paragraphs ran together, hit the enter key to place a blank line between paragraphs.

Or prior to resetting the paragraph format place and extra return between paragraphs.

 

[LaRascasse]

I think you can submit the doc file as a file. It will take one or two more days to show up, but will probably help your cause.

 

[Rozalin_0123]

I managed to get things sorted out. Thank you everyone for your help.