I rely heavily on Grammarly to clean up my writing, but there are a lot of problems using it in Elements, primarily in the Typography component. Most times when you try to make a substitution, not all the text gets substituted and UNDO never works, so you lose whatever you had. If instead you try to use the PASTE option from Grammarly the text starts behaving badly, where there are orphaned characters left in the editor, that are not visible in the browser.
Sometimes if you try to backspace over a character it will delete whole blocks of text, which once again is not able to be undone.
I don’t know if this is all due to an incompatibility with Grammarly or if something else is going on. I even tried pasting plain text and that seems to make things worse. Particularly, when trying to remove extra carriage returns. Instead of just deleting the carriage return it will delete it along with some arbitrary amount of text above the return.
Very worrying. For now, I’m forced to write the copy in iA Writer and then copy and paste from there into Elements, but even this can be a bit unreliable.
I’m left dreaming about being able to use Markdown for long-form text as it is so much easier and faster. Maybe I can use the CMS to handle long-form text instead of typography. Frustrating.
I did not see any follow-up on the question about Grammarly. If so, I missed it.
My interest in Grammarly is for home use.
We follow the topics on the support forum, as some of the folks kindly helped me with getting up a simple, basic family photo/blog
web page using RW Classic. I did purchase Elements to support all the efforts everyone is putting in.
We are the least knowledgeable person on the list, last, on belay.
One of these days, when I fire up Elements, we will be looking for all the 'what you see is what you get’.
I would like to know what the opinions are about the compatibility of Grammarly and RWC/Elements.
I never heard anything back about this and the problem persists where when Grammarly makes a substitution some of the substituted text disappears.
My solution has been to do all of my writing in a different app and have Grammarly make all of the corrections there, then paste from there into Elements. Not ideal but it means I can safely use Grammarly.
There have been some recent updates to Grammarly that means you can skip writing in an external app. It now can COPY the rewritten text, which can then be pasted into Elements. For very short sentences it works without losing text, but not on larger blocks.
I’m not sure if this is an Elements problem or a Grammarly one as I have had the same problem in other apps.
