Difficulty

As I said in my first posting, what I was hoping to do with this blog was to put in it extracts from stuff, published and unpublished, I have written. However, when I paste in selections from previously composed 'word' documents, although they then appear in the window, when I click on 'Publish Post' and look at what I have just published, I find that the pasted in content has failed to appear. This remders, for my purposes, the whole thing useless.

Perhaps some thoughtful person could tell me how it's done, what I have done that I ought not to have done, what I have left undone that I ought to have done, why there is no health in me, etc.?