False error message for item description

[Ada Radius]

I'm getting a false error message when I'm changing descriptions in my listings. "This text is too long: the maximum length is 2000 characters." I just checked my ad copy in MS Word - there are only 762 characters. It started happening when I was trying to add copyright wording at the bottom of the listing, and is happening to more than one listing.
Help?

[Ada Radius]

Hi Ada,

When you copy text from Word it copies formating as well. You can't see those HTML tags but they take up quite a lot of space. I suggest you copy-paste your text into notepad (which doesn't support formating and will therefore ignore it) and then copy-paste it from there into the Kitely Market description - this should eliminate the HTML tags that Word added and provide you with the full 2000 characters.

[Ada Radius]

Thank you! bad bloaty MS.

[Constance Peregrine]

bloaty MS...lol-))

but, actually, you CAN see html inside of browsers...using Chrome click your mouse in the area, right click, view source...it varies with how a page is formatted as to what parts of it you will see.

In any case, that is only fyi, what Ilan said is right [but isn't it always????????] dunno, but it is right now-))

[Constance Peregrine]

the part relating to my comment....

<div class="content">bloaty MS...lol-))<br /><br />but, actually, you CAN see html inside of browsers...using Chrome click your mouse in the area, right click, view source...it varies with how a page is formatted as to what parts of it you will see.<br /><br />In any case, that is only fyi, what Ilan said is right [but isn't it always????????] dunno, but it is right now-))</div>

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as well, in Microsoft word you can view html-))