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Aug 13, 2012, 12:01 pm

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Originally Posted by allset2travel

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Can someone confirm that this method (drafting in a word doc, copy and paste photo from photobucket) indeed works at FT? This could make life easier for trip report writers, and hence encourage more participation.

I certainly can because that's how I write my reports. In MS Word copy and pasting the links from my Smugmug and then copy and pasting to FT.

I'd also like to add that when I see the following comment:

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This is my first report so be nice to me

I get annoyed. I don't mind you mentioning it's your first report, but often constructive criticism is more useful than "good report". It's also a bit rude to tell your readers what to do, especially in the first line.

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