trying one more time

[laptopwriter]

Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to submit a story. My problem is I write with MS Word 2010 edition; it does not show the file extensions, but instead, simply has each type of file named. The story I want to submit has quite a few phrases in italics and would be a real pain to put offset marks on everything for submitting via copy and paste.
Literotica says a .doc file can be submitted and will maintain the italics; okay, does anyone know what file corresponds with the .doc file extension on Word 2010?
Thank you for your help.

 

[sr71plt]

I have 2010 in my laptop too, and I step everything down to 97-2003. But I would think that going through and putting the italics coding in and doing the cut and paste would be simpler and less time consuming than wheels spinning. You really shouldn't have much italics in a story anyway. It's considered disconcerting and there are other options given for most italics applications.

 

[slyc_willie]

I have 2010 in my laptop too, and I step everything down to 97-2003.

This.

Personally, I use OpenOffice and just save my stories as Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP .doc files. I use italics quite often as well, without any coding in the text, and they've all gone through just fine. I've run into problems with centering, however, so I now avoid it, but that's been about it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to submit a story. My problem is I write with MS Word 2010 edition; it does not show the file extensions, but instead, simply has each type of file named. The story I want to submit has quite a few phrases in italics and would be a real pain to put offset marks on everything for submitting via copy and paste.
Literotica says a .doc file can be submitted and will maintain the italics; okay, does anyone know what file corresponds with the .doc file extension on Word 2010?
Thank you for your help.

You might consider RTF ( Rich Text Format), if you just want italics. Simpler than a .doc and does pretty much anything you're likely to want in a story.

 

[laptopwriter]

Thank you all

I rarely use italics, but in this instance it is necessary.
Thanks again; I see the RTF format and will try that.

 

[laptopwriter]

I appreciate every one's help but I give up

I tried the RTF format and I tried the 97 doc format and each time got a note saying neither worked with Literotica's "robot."
I thought it was difficult to publish on Smashwords, but it appears Literotica has them beat.
Again, thank you all for trying to help but I give up.

 

[TxRad]

I tried the RTF format and I tried the 97 doc format and each time got a note saying neither worked with Literotica's "robot."
I thought it was difficult to publish on Smashwords, but it appears Literotica has them beat.
Again, thank you all for trying to help but I give up.

2010 word uses .xdoc. Go to save as and save your file as a .doc. Upload it and you should have no problems. I've done about 175 stories that way.

 

[laptopwriter]

Thank but I've already tried that

Since the program does not show extensions, I'm assuming you mean the standard file. I've already tried that with the same results as I have stated above.
I guess I could take the time to off set the italics with symbols and copy & paste but I was really trying to avoid that, especially since, according to Literotica's guidelines, I shouldn't have to do it.
I just have to find the time I guess.
Thanks again for all your help.

 

[Dyslexicea]

Click the office button, top left, hover over Save As, a menu appears click Word 97-2003 Document, name your document than save. The extension is doc. (Mystory.doc)

 

[laptopwriter]

Thanks but that's exactly what I've done about 3 times now

I'm not a complete novice at this; I have been publishing stories on Smashwords and Amazon for the last couple of years; I have also published on SOL and never have had the trouble I've had here.
Again, thank you all for trying to help.

 

[sr71plt]

WHOA. She was only trying to help you with YOUR problem that you brought to the forum. She has no idea what you know about computers.

One thing is clear to me, though. If you'd just done the coding and cut and paste into the dialogue box, you'd be done now.

 

[TheRiseFromAshes]

WHOA. She was only trying to help you with YOUR problem that you brought to the forum. She has no idea what you know about computers.

One thing is clear to me, though. If you'd just done the coding and cut and paste into the dialogue box, you'd be done now.

I think there needs to be more patience given, even if you don't want to. People are less likely to 'talk down' on others.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I think there needs to be more patience given, even if you don't want to. People are less likely to 'talk down' on others.

yeah, but how many times do you need to be told?

 

[PennLady]

WHOA. She was only trying to help you with YOUR problem that you brought to the forum. She has no idea what you know about computers.

One thing is clear to me, though. If you'd just done the coding and cut and paste into the dialogue box, you'd be done now.

I have to second this. If you just put <i> and</i> tags around the text you want italicized, then cut and paste, it makes things so much easier. I didn't at first -- I went back and found my italicized text and then put the tags in -- but once I just started including those, it saved a lot of aggravation.

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to submit a story. My problem is I write with MS Word 2010 edition; it does not show the file extensions, but instead, simply has each type of file named. The story I want to submit has quite a few phrases in italics and would be a real pain to put offset marks on everything for submitting via copy and paste.
Literotica says a .doc file can be submitted and will maintain the italics; okay, does anyone know what file corresponds with the .doc file extension on Word 2010?
Thank you for your help.

I've gotten to the point where I automatically write the html tags into the story. This is regardless of what I use to write the story - Google docs, Word, notepad... it doesn't matter.

I only learned this after having to put the chapters of a novel-length story (all separate .doc files) into one .rtf file to upload. Every subsequent story submission I've made has had the tags written into it. I've since pulled that story and have been working on re-writes, and those rewrites have the tags written into the text. Uploading the .rtf was the single worst submission experience I've had here, so I try to copy/paste all the time.

 

[sr71plt]

In Word you can do a Find/Format/Italics/Find All on existing text. It goes right to each successive use of italics, you plug in the open/close coding, go on to the next, finish, and go have a beer while the computer geeks are still looking for the technical "easy button."

 

[Dyslexicea]

In Word you can do a Find/Format/Italics/Find All on existing text. It goes right to each successive use of italics, you plug in the open/close coding, go on to the next, finish, and go have a beer while the computer geeks are still looking for the technical "easy button."

I learn something new everyday, thank you Pilot.

 

[laptopwriter]

Thanks again,

Normally I very seldom use italics. In this particular case, I felt it was needed. Submitting the story to Literotica was an after thought; had I anticipated this kind of trouble I would have included the tags as I was writing.

Anyway, I did go back and put in the tags; it is now pending.

Thanks again for every one's help. This is only the first of four chapters that show italics so I should have no problem from here with submitting subsequent chapters.

 

[HeyAll]

Why don't you just Copy & Paste the story onto the submission page instead of using a file?

 

[sr71plt]

I learn something new everyday, thank you Pilot.

Comes from working in publishing houses a decade ago. All styling had to be stripped out of authors' manuscript files (just like many here, they somehow thought the author was the book designer--even when having been pointedly told otherwise) and all coding had to be put in manually by the manuscript editors. That took more time than the copyedit, but we learned every shortcut the systems gave us.

 

[johneb87]

For not showing extensions. Go to "Organize" in your Explorer window, then to Folder and Search options. Then on the View tab, uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types".

 

[laptopwriter]

Thanks

For the tip about not hiding the extensions; wow, that makes it a lot easier. Thanks again.

 

[damppanties]

In Word you can do a Find/Format/Italics/Find All on existing text. It goes right to each successive use of italics, you plug in the open/close coding, go on to the next, finish, and go have a beer while the computer geeks are still looking for the technical "easy button."

Easier way to do this:

• In the 'Find what' box, don't type anything but press Cntrl+I. It will show 'Font: Italic' under the box.
• In the 'Replace with' box, type <i>^&</i>
• Click 'Replace All'

 

[sr71plt]

Easier way to do this:

• In the 'Find what' box, don't type anything but press Cntrl+I. It will show 'Font: Italic' under the box.
• In the 'Replace with' box, type <i>^&</i>
• Click 'Replace All'

I think you'll find that you really want to eyeball each change. All sorts of interesting things can happen to text when you do a universal replace.

 

[laptopwriter]

I've used that method for changing names and things like that

But never tied it for off set marks like that. I submitted chapters 1 and 2 already using copy and paste, but now that I can see the extensions, I think I'll try submitting 3 as a file and see if it works.
This site seems to take a long time to post after submitting doesn't it. Both chapter are still pending. Oh well, no hurry.
Thanks again for all the help, I learned a lot.