Windows Live Writer Bug -- Cannot Copy Text To Title

Just stumbled across an interesting bug in WLW:  I can't copy text into the title of a post.  Anyone else seeing this behavior?

I also cannot find a place to submit bug reports to the WLW team.

Also, a little gotcha for Community Server users...if you are running in single blog mode (i.e. your blog is located at <yourSite.com>/blog/) and you aren't able to get the Web Layout/Web Preview options to work, point WLW to <yourSite.com>/blogs/MetaBlog.ashx and that should clear it up.  You'll still be able to post normally from WLW and you'll get the eye candy as well.

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Only published comments... Aug 15 2006, 10:12 PM by Jayson Knight

Filed under: Windows Live Writer

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	Dave Burke said: Jayson, you beat me to the punch on this.  I discovered it just this morning when I started using it with my first Daily News.  That's going to be a pain typing the Daily News title in every day! August 16, 2006 10:27 AM
	Joe Cheng [MSFT] said: Yes, that's a bug--we knew about it before we shipped but didn't have time to fix it.  A workaround for now is to switch to HTML mode (F12) which will let you paste in the title.  (Yuck, I know...) August 16, 2006 4:41 PM
	Jayson Knight said: Hey Joe, no worries guy...it's beta software, however that's a pretty big bug to have not had time to fix it! Thanks for stopping by. August 16, 2006 9:57 PM
	Dave Burke said: As pointed out by my buddy Jayson Knight and others, you cannot copy and paste text into the Live Writer... August 21, 2006 11:00 AM

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Jayson Knight was clueless to the computer programming world until he took a C++ class in college. The rest is proverbial history. He has been building applications targeting the .Net framework for 7 years, focusing mainly on internet technologies and database driven web application development.

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