WordPress: Pasting from Word

Composing blog posts in MS Word and then pasting them directly into the WordPress post editor generally causes problems. Layout issues. Font sizes/faces. Broken validation. This is not really news… but based on activity at the WordPress.org support forums, people sure like to do it. Allow me to share a few thoughts.

Firstly, if you really

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Paint.NET 3.08 Beta Released

Paint.NET v3.08 beta was announced today. In general, this is mostly a maintenance or bug-fix release. I’m very happy to say that one bug that was driving me nuts has been resolved:

Fixed: Pasting an image from Office 2003 applications now works (e.g. Excel 2003 graphs).

The funny thing is, I didn’t even know

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Word zero-day. Again.

Yet another Word 2000 zero-day exploit . [Secunia's version]

Be careful with those attachments, folks.

Word Vulnerability — Be Careful With Attachments

Folks are always encouraged to be cautious with attachments on email, but if you’re using MS Word you want to be extra cautious. Microsoft has published a security advisory titled, “Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution.” Here are the high points:

Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks

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Word Exploit

Be careful with the MS Word Attachments. Or switch to OpenOffice.org. New exploit out there.