Windows Live Writer Bug -- Cannot Copy Text To Title

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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.

Posted Tue, Aug 15 2006 10:12 PM by Jayson Knight

Filed under: Windows Live Writer

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Dave Burke wrote re: Windows Live Writer Bug -- Cannot Copy Text To Title

on Wed, Aug 16 2006 10:27 AM

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!

Joe Cheng [MSFT] wrote re: Windows Live Writer Bug -- Cannot Copy Text To Title

on Wed, Aug 16 2006 4:41 PM

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...)

Jayson Knight wrote re: Windows Live Writer Bug -- Cannot Copy Text To Title

on Wed, Aug 16 2006 9:57 PM

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.

Dave Burke wrote Live Writer Post Subject Copy-Paste tip

on Mon, Aug 21 2006 11:00 AM

As pointed out by my buddy Jayson Knight and others, you cannot copy and paste text into the Live Writer...

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