Got a message on this. Read same. Having read it, I have no idea what the new listing experience is going to try to to to or for me. What I do is produce listings for my store. Each item I sell is similar but unique. I have to write a lot of listings. I write a lot of ad copy. Much of it is repetitive. Essentially, I run a small advertising agency for my business. (As well as an insurance company, a fulfillment house, a purchasing agency, a research department, and a photography studio to name a few.) Text and photographs is all I have to work with, I try to so the best I can. The photographs side works pretty well, your photo uploader has gotten better, more robust, less likely to hang up or go down than it used to be.
Your word processor is goulish. I prefer to use an older style font because it is easier to read, especially for older customers. Serifs on the letters help the eye follow the line. I have moved from Times New Roman to Georgia to Western over the years. Your spell check program seems to have been designed with malicious intent. The word relist is often used, you really should add it to the lexicon. Changing back to relist has cost me a lot of time. I sometimes make typos, I work in a specialized field with some of its own terminology, I often use foreign words, sometimes I use words I want to use that are just spelt differently. Spell check often just slows me down. It also often plays a very boring and very nasty little game.
When I am typing text, if spell check changes a word, it then also changes the font at the beginning of the paragraph to Arial. It then leaves the changed word in Western, but changes the font size. (I use 14.) After the word it changes some of the following text to Arial, or the rest of the paragraph to Arial, or the rest of the test to the very end to Arial. There are two ways to bring this back. One is to go to advanced editing, highlight the whole business, change the whole business to some other font and some other size, then change the whole business back to Western 14. That works great, once. The problem is, all the historical text changes remain embedded but invisible in the text.
Now to save time, I have to copy listings. You try typing an all new listing every time. About half of every listing is boilerplate. These embedded text changes come back to haunt you, you wind up never knowing what you are putting before the public, as text. A salad of different sizes and fonts does NOT look professional. So I must go into edit HTML, where all those little codes reside. Be careful what you change there, you can lose your whole paragraph, never get it back. So you have to delete the inserted <Arial> command at the start of the paragraph, delete the <font> change before the word that spell check helped you with, then delete the <Arial> command following. Takes a cool head and a keen eye, since HTML looks completely different from Standard, the paragraph breaks are gone, sentences now end not just in periods but in space commands. This is no longer a WYSIWYG world you are working in. I've gotten pretty quick at it, but your word processor really is unique to my experience. Most word processors have figured out now how to insert the spell check experience (which I don't much like, I proof my own text already, and using a specialist vocabulary as I must, I find quite a number of spell check blunders.) If you could somehow bring your word processor up to date, housebreak it you might say, so that it does not put in unrequested font and size changes where it hurts, it would make my listing job a lot easier. I have communicated regarding this problem before. It makes my work much harder, NOT easier. A remedy does not seem to be a high priority.
