Pasting Messages On LinkedIn – A Quick Tip


When you are copying and pasting messages on LinkedIn, you often find that there are lots of empty lines.

Here is a quick tip that will solve that issue.

BACGROUND

Letters on computers are made up of 1’s and 0’s. We usually use an alphabet made up of 8 1’s and 0’s and call that a byte. For Windows PCs, we almost always use a set of letters called ASCII.
Messages on LinkedIn use a very similar set called UTF-8.

Our issue is caused by the fact that the NEW LINE character(s) are one of the places where ASCII and UTF-8 differ.

SOLUTIONS TO PASTING MESSAGES ON LINKEDIN

To make our messages behave, we need to make sure that when we are pasting messages on LinkedIn, that those messages use the UTF-8 character set.


AN ADVANCED SOLUTION

There are a number of text editors like NotePad+ and EditPad Pro 8. Notepad++ is free and uses UTF-8 as its default character set. You need to jump through a few hoops if you want to add a spellchecker to the program. EditPad Pro to UTF-8. Editpad Pro 8 is about $60 and you need to set the file type to default to UTF-8..

Using one of these text editors has several advantages.

  • This has the added advantage that the text files will accurately transfer Emojis. A text file saved using ASCII does not save emojis.
  • You open one copy of the program and different files are opened as tabs.
  • The programs will automatically save backups of your files if the programs get closed by situations like a power outage or your PC crashing.


A SIMPLE SOLUTION

When you are pasting messages on LinkedIn, you can open this website:

https://www.browserling.com/tools/utf8-encode

Paste your message into the box, edit it, and click the COPY TO CLIPOARD button. Now you can paste that message on LinkedIn and there will not be lots of blank lines. (Yoy can keep tow or three tabs open if you end up using several different messages in one session.)

HERE IS WHAT THE KEY PART OF THE WEB PAgE LOOK LIKE

pasting messages on LinkedIn


Make sure #2 is UTF8.

As a side benefit, you can keep this tab open and make minor tweaks to change the message so yiu don’t look like a bot.

I hope this helps!
Dr. Hale Pringle.

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