The phrase that did the work was asking for it rendered in the chat, for copy-paste into Blogger Compose view — not as a file or HTML.
Here's a request you can reuse:
"Write this as a blog post and render it directly in the chat as formatted text — headings, bold, a table, and live hyperlinks — so I can select it, copy, and paste into Blogger's Compose view. Don't give me an HTML file or a code block; I want the formatted output itself."
The three things that make it land:
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"Render it in the chat as formatted text" — this tells me to output the post as normal rich Markdown in my reply, which your browser turns into formatted text on the page. That's what carries clean into Compose when you copy it.
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"Not an HTML file / not a code block" — this steers me away from the two formats that break in Compose. A file gives you nothing to copy-paste as text; a code block (the gray monospace boxes) pastes raw
<a href>source that Compose shows as literal characters, not links. -
"Live hyperlinks I can paste into Compose" — confirms you want clickable links to survive the copy, so I use inline
[text](url)Markdown rather than bare URLs or footnote-style references.
One honest caveat so it never surprises you: the part that pastes most reliably is the prose, bold, headings, and links. Tables are the one element that sometimes arrive plain in Compose depending on browser and paste target. If a table ever comes in looking stripped, just say "give me that table as a simpler layout for Compose" and I'll reshape it.
And a shorthand once we've done it once: "Same as the CAC post — rendered for Blogger Compose" will get you the identical treatment without spelling it all out.
