I don't know enough about html to be much help there, but
I think I can help you to whip your document into shape.
If your source document is like others I have seen,
somebody typed a word at the left margin, then pressed tab
a few times, typed some more, etc. At the second line
they did the same, but some of the entries are longer or
shorter, so there are more or fewer tabs than in the first
line. Something like that? If so, you can use Replace
with wildcards to bring the beginnings of order. Edit >
Replace (or Ctrl + H), and check Use Wildcards. In Find
what, enter ^t{1,}. Replace with ^t, or with a comma, or
whatever you like. What you are doing with the first part
is to replace 1 or more instances of the tab (^t) with
whatever you choose. By the way, you can use Replace
(wildcards enabled) with ^13{1,} in Find what and ^p in
Replace to get rid of empty paragraphs. In this case ^13
is the way to find a paragraph mark in a wildcard search,
and ^p is the paragraph mark you will replace it with.
Don't try to understand the logic of using two different
codes to find a paragraph mark. Anyhow, you can copy it
into Notepad if you like, or you can work on it some more
in Word. Let's say you chose to replace with a comma.
Select the text, then click Table > Convert > Text to
table. Choose to separate with a comma. This also works
with tabs or other characters. Or you can copy to
Notepad, save as a .csv file, and open that file with
Excel. My point is that you can probably use wildcards in
a search to eliminate most of the rubble, after which you
will have a much easier time with your html editor ( and
everything else). One more thing that might help is that
you can select any or all of the text in a document, and
press Ctrl + Q, then Ctrl + Spacebar to remove any manual
paragraph and character formatting. Do this if the
current selection of italics, bold, etc. is not to your
liking.
-----Original Message-----
how can I cut and paste from word into an html editor
without bringing all the formatting with it?
example: when I copy "Gardening"
this is what turns up when I paste
<FONT size=2><P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New
Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-
fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-
ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-
SA"> said:
I have a huge document that has been badly prepared using
tabs to align four columns of text. If I save as .txt I
lose all the alignment and the document makes no sense so
I can't cut and paste it anyway
