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Waiting for strikeout formatting!

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Testing 123

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Is it possible to publish on web only, and then send same article out to email list at a later time?

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What about GIFs? I can't seem to get them to work.

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Did you figure out how to get gifs to work? I'm still trying and none of them work and I'm simply copying the www.gif etc.

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You can drag and drop gifs from your desktop into the Substack editor.

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How can I import my contacts to build my email list please?

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If I've imported a post from my WordPress blog, does that stop me being able to send an email to subscribers?

The option doesn't appear after I hit publish

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That's correct. Imported posts cannot be sent out by email. But any new post you create on Substack can be emailed out.

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How can we set external links in our "About" page to open in a new window? Right now all the external links I've added to my "About" page are opening in the SAME window and replacing the view of my "About" details.

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Just now received a reply from Support. Apparently this problem was a bug which has since been fixed. :-)

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How can we add a text link that will activate the sharing option? I tried inserting the following code as a text link, but got an error message instead of the pop-up sharing option: %%share_URL%% ~ Thanks in advance!

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Just now received a reply from Support. Apparently the share code needs to be all lower case: %%share_url%%

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How can I add a photo by line?

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You can turn that on in your settings. First, enable bylines. Then you'll see an option to add images to bylines.

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Is there any way we may submit an embed format to substack? We have it supported by embed.ly which is supported by Medium and a range of platforms but can't include it in substack.

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Thanks, this will help, I think.

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I'd love to know how to DELETE an entire draft

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Go into settings while editing a post and scroll to the bottom to find delete

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Rookie mistake. Thank you, @Hamish.

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Is there an undo edit function? Or a way to revert to the previous saved version of a draft post? Because I just, somehow, deleted most of a post in progress and I see no way to recover the text one second later. Even Notepad lets you do that. Notepad!

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Have you tried command+z (or whatever the hotkey for 'undo' is on a PC)? If you're still having trouble recovering the text, please write to support@substack.com and we'll see what we can do.

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I wrote a sad lament to "hello" @substack while you were posting this comment. I'll forward it to "support" Thanks!

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Is there any way to SIZE elements we insert via your wysiwg interface, whether imported jpg images of our own or links to external sources, like a YouTube video?

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