# Trouble starting a thread, copied-\> pasted text from Word **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-starting-a-thread-copied-pasted-text-from-word/413336 "2007-07-27T05:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-starting-a-thread-copied-pasted-text-from-word/413336/1 "2007-07-27T05:15:38Z")
[Here’s the link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430419) to a dead thread in the BBQ. I cannot stay seated for long at my job, which means I can’t stay logged on. In order to write out a longish OP I had to type + save it onto Word in a couple different trips. When I was done I copied and pasted it onto “this area” for the body of a thread. When I went to preview it wasn’t working. I thought it was odd but questioned if maybe preview only works for some length. So I just added a snippit at the end “preview isn’t working, sorry for errors, blah blah blah”. Then I submitted it, well, only my title came up. I created the thread, but there was zero content in the body. I changed the title and now I’m here. What gives? the only thing I can think of is that my default in Word is new times roman and when I copied and pasted I somehow made it uncomputable for the boards to read. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-starting-a-thread-copied-pasted-text-from-word/413336/2 "2007-07-27T05:32:16Z")
I fixed the coding. I had to guess in a couple of places, so let me know if I screwed it up. **Gfactor** , General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-starting-a-thread-copied-pasted-text-from-word/413336/3 "2007-07-27T05:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=Gfactor] I fixed the coding. I had to guess in a couple of places, so let me know if I screwed it up. **Gfactor** , General Questions Moderator [/QUOTE] Awesome, looks great, could you change the title too? I posted it in the third thread. Thanks for the help, in the future, do you know what I did to cause that? ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-starting-a-thread-copied-pasted-text-from-word/413336/4 "2007-07-27T05:41:19Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] What gives? [/QUOTE] > **[I Do Believe I've Discovered a Glitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=428511)** > > In this thread, I tried to make a post, but it wouldn’t show up. A post would be made, but there’d be no text. I figured out what caused it, but I don’t know if it’s glitch in vBulletin, or if it’s one of those temporary things. Anyway, here’s... Missing or non-matching end tags sometimes result in blank posts. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trouble-starting-a-thread-copied-pasted-text-from-word/413336/5 "2007-07-27T05:58:40Z")
Ah, that’s right, I remember that. Should have suspected that was the cause of the blank preview. One new thing I did discover though was that it’s very hard to quote a closed thread when you want to bring it to the pit. That’s usually how I do multiple quotes in a thread, by just hitting reply then copy + pasting. Keep that in mind for yourself kids next time! Thanks all who helped.