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Maybe I'm still too new to computing to have not known of this ahead of time, but some of our text entries take as long as three hours to write - and in that time you could easily be timed out and lose whatever you've written.

We came up with the common-sense idea of writing everything in our wordprocessor as an .rtf file, which is how we keep our test files. But they don't always load properly here at Mosaic Globe if we copy/paste them because .rtf files often have extra information in addition to what you've written. So what we did (running Windows XP) is copy and paste the .rtf text and paste it into the Windows notePad as a .txt file, then copied and pasted that into our latest page and voila! - no problem!

Mac users may experience the same issue using Word for Mac. If you use Word, copy your text into 'TextEdit' first to strip out all of the hidden code that Microsoft embeds in the document. In some instances you may also have to convert the .RTF text to plain text (Format | Make Plain Text).

Danny wrote:

> Mac users may experience the same issue using Word for Mac. If you use Word,
> copy your text into 'TextEdit' first to strip out all of the hidden code that
> Microsoft embeds in the document. In some instances you may also have to convert
> the .RTF text to plain text (Format | Make Plain Text).

We've experimented a bit more using Notepad and found that if you don't try making paragraphs to fit the normal window-size of the utility (600 X 400, I think), but let the sentences run all the way across the "page" the text will fit properly on a Mosaic Globe page. We've tried this at Deviant Art and at the dreaded MySpace and it works just fine.
From what I gather one of the reasons .rtf files have the hidden code is to ready-format them for HTML/webpage use, but other than using it as a simple wordprocessor for around the house use (personal journals and the like)it's really kind of superfluous. And thanks, Danny! from Terrence