Problem submitting articles to EzineArticles

I was trying to submit articles to EzineArticles.com. But I was always caught up with the problem:

"There is a minimum word count required for the body of your article, 250 words. Currently you have 38 words, please go back and make corrections.
If this word count is incorrect... Please check any HTML tags in your article are properly closed. Malformed HTML may cause an incorrect word count."

Please help!! Thank you very much!

 

As I notice, the word count is not correct while text is copy & past.
Just ignore and submit your article anyway.

 

before copying the article to ezine, copy it to notepad first. this will format the text and you will not have this problem

 

cpa-money, do you mean that word document formatting creates a problem for the text, that running the text through notepad removes?

 

ya! copy the article on notepad and then to ezine. It will work out perfectly.

 

I had no problem with ezine!

 

You're doing something wrong. First copy and paste article to notepad and make sure you're copying it correctly.