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[rynne]

I am never using googledocs to write fic again.

Normally I just use MS Word, but for this last fic I tried using googledocs, so I could just flip between tabs rather than programs.

But then it kept fucking up the spacing every time I opened the document. First it just eliminated lines between paragraphs, and then at the end of the fic it started eliminating paragraphs, so that it ended up in one big block of text.

Now the big block of text is bigger, and has my beta's comments interspersed in so it's just long inches of what the hell at the bottom of my fic. Now I have to find my paragraphs and separate them from beta comments and just argh.

Googledocs, you suck.

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[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *sighs* I have that problem a lot too. I REALLY wish it had a plain text option instead of rich text.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would have made things so much easier. But as it is, my desire to avoid untangling my paragraphs is a lot greater than my desire to avoid having to flip between programs, so I think I'll just go back to Word. XD

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could try Zoho for wordprocessing? I haven't tried it lately, but maybe.

And ugh, don't get me started on GoogleDocs spacing. You should've seen what happened to a term paper clioidae and I wrote last spring -- 5 minutes till the deadline and the formatting got fucked because we could'nt strip it when we went back into Word (luckily 2 hours later we were still just the 3rd group to hand it in, LOL.)

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Zoho sounds interesting. I'll try it. :)

Googledocs just sucks so much. Someone needs to fix whatever it is that screws up the formatting.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

Don't know if it'll give you the same formatting but it's worth a shot.

When in doubt, save as plain text to strip formatting and then re-format in word itself.