Forum / New here. Need help with upload.

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    Sara Silva
    Jun 23, 06:36pm

    Hi, everyone.

    I'm new here and I'm having an issue with uploading a new piece. The story cuts off in the Preview pane about 3/4 of the way through the story.

    Is this due to length? The story comes in around 4500 words.

    Is it maybe due to copy/paste from a Word-type document (I use OpenOffice)?

    Any help is much appreciated.

    Thanks!

    Alice

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    Matt Dennison
    Jun 23, 07:42pm

    That's not too long. There was one recently that came in at around 10,000(!).

    Don't know about your other variables...

    Try cut/paste from rtf. instead of Word?

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    Darryl Price
    Jun 23, 07:45pm

    Try copying it from your home computer and then just pasting it in to your Fictionaut post a story page.

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    Sara Silva
    Jun 23, 08:09pm

    @Matt - .rtf did the trick! Thank you!

    @Darryl - Thanks!

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    H-M Brown
    Jun 24, 04:26pm

    From Word.doc go to 'save as' and save it as a Plain Text Format. Then you could copy/paste from Plain Text into Fictionaut easily. A lot of us had this problem. Also use Times New Roman Fonts. It seems Fictionaut website enjoys that than otehr fonts. :)

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    Matt Dennison
    Jun 26, 06:03pm

    Thanks for that info, H-M. With that play I just uploaded I finally had to go with the Plain Text format--Word & rtf kept cutting it short when "published."

    Lost the formatting, but...

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