Because I am a moron, I went ahead and cut & pasted the LJ specific tags (cut, link to user or cummunity, etc) into a word file.

This has actually been a time & hassle saver as I am not a fantastic typist and my memory re: tags can be faulty. Now when I post a story, I just go to my word file & cut and paste. The only thing I have to do is change the title of the snippet for the cut.