I gotta tell you, the listing editor is really a piece of @*#&! Is there anyone out in the world of Auctiva that can HONESTLY say they have absolutely NO problems using it whatsoever?
Here's what I have encountered, and put up with, for the last year. The editor can not, or simply does not, know how to format text. You can type in a paragraph of text, highlight it and select the left justify button and NOTHING! Do a preview and the text is centered. Go back to the editor and the text is centered. Highlight again and click ANY justification other than centered and try the preview again. What happens? NOTHING! Still centered.
So now I go into Word and setup the text. Left justified for the description etc. It's all looking good so I cut and paste it into the editor (be sure not to let it clean it up for you!). It seems to look ok but when you do the preview, yup, you guessed it, the text is centered! Go back to the editor and highlight the text and click left justify. Nothing happens. BUT, when I go to the preview now, the text is left justified. OK, I guess I can live with that. But wait, there is an error in the text. So I go into the editor and make the change. Oooops! Big mistake. Now the paragraphs have been stacked together in the preview. No spaces between them. But it looks OK in the editor. Now what?
Go back into Word. Make the changes there. Cut and paste again. Select and rejustify and check the preview. Finally, it looks OK. But when it posts to eBay, it looks a bit different still. Not enough to matter but different just the same.
One other thing, I've been told it's always my templates that are screwing things up. Well, I tested this scenario with not only my templates but about a half a dozen standard Auctiva templates as well. And they look just as jacked up as mine did. In fact, the text was even displayed in completely different justifications within the standard templates. Just too weird.
SO, the million dollar question again, does anyone use this editor successfully? If so, PLEASE enlighten me as to how you do it without resorting to massive quantities of alcohol or prescription drugs. Because the way I see it, this is the biggest flaw in an otherwise respectable application.
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