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[EntAllat]

What am I doing wrong and what can I do to fix it? Bear in mind I am NOT very computer savy so use small words

No problem!

Let me ask a couple of questions first. Is the story you're trying to upload in a Microsoft Word document? Are you getting this message? "Invalid Upload! File uploads must be in plain text or html format. You must include the text of your story either as an upload or as input into the textarea."

If so, there's two ways to post your story: Copy everything in the Word doc and paste, as Glory described, or save your Word document as "Text Only". You'll see it as an option in Word when you do "save as". And that's it. You should be able to upload that text-only version of your story.

Edited to add: I see you got it, but I decided to leave this here in case it's helpful to anyone else.

[Aquarius]

I just wanted to add that if you change the format to "text only," any formatting like italics or bold may be lost, so you'll have to be sure to redo it once it's uploaded into the text editor. But honestly, because the uploader is so persnickity, we've been advising people to copy/paste all along. At school, turnitin.com has similar issues, and the profs all give the same advice in that situation, too.

Locking this thread now because it somehow escaped being moved before. Technical questions/problems should be brought up in the relevant section of the Jupiter Station forums, located near the bottom of the forum's front page.

[Honeybee]

We're aware of intermittent server outages. It's a host issue, but if it doesn't stop, we'll contact them.

[Honeybee]

We're aware of intermittent server outages. It's a host issue, but if it doesn't stop, we'll contact them.