Dragging MS Word files onto a page.

[Wally S]

This is a continuation to my posting in the "Copying from Word Table to FP
Table" thread. I thought it would be worth posting as a new message, and I
am not sure whether people are still reading the other thread. It is about
dragging Word files directly onto an FP page. Everybody says you get too
much coding. My original message follows the present one. I think this info
may save people some time and work.

So I did a check with Net Mechanic, and (gasp!) it found 94 html errors on
one page. After my heart palpitations calmed down and I was able to breathe
normally again, I checked to see what these errors were. It seems that Net
Mechanic didn't like the mouseover commands in my navigation bar. It
considered them to be "wrong attributes." The only problem it could find
with my inserted Word file is that the <i> and </i> tags were supposedly in
the wrong place. But they work, at least in IE6. And so do my mouseover
commands. It also said that a <style> tag was missing the required
attribute, but my styles also work in IE6.

To check further, I called a Chinese friend who has Chinese windows and
Chinese IE, and had her take a look. She reported that my navigation bar
works, my styles work, and the italics are there. Well... so much for Net
Mechanic. And dragging MS Word files onto an open page in FP works fine.

Wally S

I have been editing in MS Word and dragging the files from Windows Explorer
onto my page in FP for years, and I don't have any problems. The two
applications work together just fine. My tables come out okay and so do my
bulleted lists. Maybe a little extra formatting to get just the look I want.

I haven't found all the tons and tons of extra coding I am supposed to get
from doing this. Maybe there are a few extra tags, but if a paragraph begins
with <p> and ends with </p> with no tags in between, I guess that's okay.
The pages come out looking just the way I want them to look. Of course, I
have not checked them out on all the different browsers, but if there is a
problem, my readers write in. I have a very simple layout (KISS), and mostly
I get compliments.

I sometimes get a few extra tags when I instert a table in the middle of
text after the page is mostly laid out, but that has nothing to do with MS
Word, and I can easily deal with it.

So I don't understand why people keep saying that it is a problem. I'm no
html expert, and if anyone wants to check my coding, the site is
www.dipika.org. Every single article was originally edited in Word and then
dragged onto a page in FP. Of course, this does not include the site map or
the links page or the articles that simply consist of a photo.

I dunno. Maybe I should check it out on one of these check-your-coding
sites, but I don't know where they are.

Wally S

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You really should keep a topic under the same thread, or you may partial get responses in multiple places

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| This is a continuation to my posting in the "Copying from Word Table to FP
| Table" thread. I thought it would be worth posting as a new message, and I
| am not sure whether people are still reading the other thread. It is about
| dragging Word files directly onto an FP page. Everybody says you get too
| much coding. My original message follows the present one. I think this info
| may save people some time and work.
|
| So I did a check with Net Mechanic, and (gasp!) it found 94 html errors on
| one page. After my heart palpitations calmed down and I was able to breathe
| normally again, I checked to see what these errors were. It seems that Net
| Mechanic didn't like the mouseover commands in my navigation bar. It
| considered them to be "wrong attributes." The only problem it could find
| with my inserted Word file is that the <i> and </i> tags were supposedly in
| the wrong place. But they work, at least in IE6. And so do my mouseover
| commands. It also said that a <style> tag was missing the required
| attribute, but my styles also work in IE6.
|
| To check further, I called a Chinese friend who has Chinese windows and
| Chinese IE, and had her take a look. She reported that my navigation bar
| works, my styles work, and the italics are there. Well... so much for Net
| Mechanic. And dragging MS Word files onto an open page in FP works fine.
|
| Wally S
|
| | > I have been editing in MS Word and dragging the files from Windows
| Explorer
| > onto my page in FP for years, and I don't have any problems. The two
| > applications work together just fine. My tables come out okay and so do my
| > bulleted lists. Maybe a little extra formatting to get just the look I
| want.
| >
| > I haven't found all the tons and tons of extra coding I am supposed to get
| > from doing this. Maybe there are a few extra tags, but if a paragraph
| begins
| > with <p> and ends with </p> with no tags in between, I guess that's okay.
| > The pages come out looking just the way I want them to look. Of course, I
| > have not checked them out on all the different browsers, but if there is a
| > problem, my readers write in. I have a very simple layout (KISS), and
| mostly
| > I get compliments.
| >
| > I sometimes get a few extra tags when I instert a table in the middle of
| > text after the page is mostly laid out, but that has nothing to do with MS
| > Word, and I can easily deal with it.
| >
| > So I don't understand why people keep saying that it is a problem. I'm no
| > html expert, and if anyone wants to check my coding, the site is
| > www.dipika.org. Every single article was originally edited in Word and
| then
| > dragged onto a page in FP. Of course, this does not include the site map
| or
| > the links page or the articles that simply consist of a photo.
| >
| > I dunno. Maybe I should check it out on one of these check-your-coding
| > sites, but I don't know where they are.
| >
| > Wally S
| >
| >
| > | > > This is really a specific follow-on to my earlier query about the best
| > > way to transfer Word documents to FP. If I have a table in Word and I
| > > copy a long row of cells from it to the clipboard, how can I paste
| > > that as one step into an identically-structured table row in FP 2000
| > > please?
| > >
| > > It seems that, whether I choose Paste, or any of the variations of
| > > Paste Special, the data insists on going into only the first cell.
| > >
| > > It's beginning to look as if I'd be better off converting the Word doc
| > > to HTM first, despite all the weird code I reacll that it introduces.
| > >
| > > --
| > > Terry, West Sussex, UK
| > >
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Wally S]

Got it.

Wally S

You really should keep a topic under the same thread, or you may partial

get responses in multiple places