he can learn new tricks.

I just ran into the new format for posting reviews that has the B I and spell check that I really like.

Problem though. I finished up and clicked through but it bumped me back because

You have an opening B without a closing B
You have a closing without an opening

How do I get out of that. All I did for bold was click and highlight the B

Wasup

pops

he can learn new tricks.

I just ran into the new format for posting reviews that has the B I and spell check that I really like.

Problem though. I finished up and clicked through but it bumped me back because

You have an opening B without a closing B
You have a closing without an opening

How do I get out of that. All I did for bold was click and highlight the B

Wasup

pops

edited to add I did not use the HTML tags of like I usually do.

Dang, I just lost my review.

I'll have to try it in that format again. Wish me luck.

Pops, I'm having the same problems. In fact, I've not yet been able to successfully post in the new format, either comment or review (keep getting html errors, which is ironic...since I'm not using HTML tags in the new format!).

When I originally had the problem with leaving comments, some helpful epinionators on the message boards clued me into the
"remove your epi-cookies" trick. That worked, meaning it got me back to the old format for a few days. Today I seem stuck in the new format and even deleting cookies didn't help.

Sigh. Eagerly awaiting any advice you get on this thread, because I need it too!

Hope your missing review is not gone forever...

Well, I got it published, but I think the engineers need to still iron out a few things. It's very frustrating.

First time I cut and paste my text and then highlighted to bold and italicize text. I got "unacceptable html" messages. So I started again. This time I put in my own html codes in the html code editor, and that worked, sort of . . . it didn't like my italics code. I also lost my line breaks.

Somehow I did get my italicized text in (I think I did it the regular text editor, by highlighting it). But I had to give up on the Italicized words in my title. Just wouldn't accept it.

And I didn't even try to put in any links. I'm sure it would have spit them back out at me!

But so far, I think we're on the right track. It is more user friendly, but I think some of us are so used to the old ways that it way take a while to get used to it.

Peggy

I think that you were all posting as the software was propagating across the server farms - on one edit, you'd get the old review-entry window; on the next, you'd get the new one. The output of the two processes seems to be incompatible. Once all of the servers have the same version of the software, you'll be getting the new version every time.

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rex

Yes, I'm also really frustrated. I've got two to post to get to twenty for the month and was trying to post one of those today. So far to no avail.

It made sense to me that perhaps I had been trying to post while the move to the new format was in process, so I completely deleted my review (after having saved my content in Word) reopened a place to post (and it's one of those laborious search engine searches!) and tried again. I'm *still* getting a HTML code error regarding italics in the body of the review: you know, you have an opening without a closing ...

I actually clicked on the HTML button in the new editor and scrolled through the code several times looking for errors. I can't see one! There was one spacing issue which I fixed, but that didn't do the trick.

Can we still enter HTML tags manually, even in the new editor? Would that be worth trying? I'm about to give up for the day, having spent an hour I didn't really have trying to make this work!

I already got rid of the bold tag in the title. That clearly wasn't working...

Beth

Additionally, a Member Center post just went up detailing some of the features of the WYSIWYG editor. Hopefully that helps a bit.

-Almar

Mmm, I'm working another review right now. The spacing between the bolded paragraph heading I put in changed when I clicked through. That was odd. I re-spaced them to a double space between previous paragraph and the next and now I'm getting the HTML code bit again. I cannot click through to post the review.

Any thoughts?

pops

Thank you for posting the tips in the member center. That does help!

And my patience was finally rewarded. On about my fifth scroll through the HTML code, I saw that the editor had somehow placed a closing italic tag after a new paragraph break instead of before. Not sure how that happened, except that I had created an entire paragraph (with a quote from the book I was reviewing) in italics. Perhaps the necessity for the two tags in a row somehow confused the WYSIWYG editor?! At any rate, perhaps it will help others to know that the editor doesn't seem to be foolproof and that human editing might still be necessary to catch the "errors" it's throwing.

I was able to correct the error and finally post the review. But it does raise a question. Is it possible, I wonder, for the editor to *highlight* code errors, just as spellcheck highlights potential misspellings? In other words, when we get that general "you have an opening this without a closing that" message, we can actually go into the code and see the potential problem highlighted? That would be a huge help. Just curious to know if it's possible!

I do think (and hope!) that in the long-run this is going to be a more user friendly format.