Opening MS Word docs in FrontPage 2003

[jerry.leblanc]

Hi,

When I open a MS Word doc in FrontPage 2003, the bold tag <b> ends up
outside the paragraph <p> tag. Is this normal and/or can this be
changed?

Here is an example of what I mean:

<B><P ALIGN="CENTER">TEST</P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">TEST 1</P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">TEST 2</P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER">TEST 3</P>
</B>

Here is what I would have assumed it would have done when converting:

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><B>TEST</B></P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER"><B>TEST 1</B></P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER"><B>TEST 2</B></P>
<P ALIGN="CENTER"><B>TEST 3</B></P>

If I highlight the text in Frontpage and then toggle the B (bold)
button, it will then format the coding like I want it but I was hoping
FP would do it automatically when it is converted. Having to highlight
all bold text in a converted document and then toggling the bold button
can be very time consuming.

Hope this makes sense.

Regards,
Jerry

 

[Guest]

Microsoft Word creates horrific HTML. (I think this is why Frontpage still
has such a bad rep.)

You really need to paste everything into notepad, strip out the coding,
paste into Frontpage and code it the way as needed in Frontpage

 

[jerry.leblanc]

Hi Corey,

Thanks for replying.

I thought that by opening a word doc in FrontPage, I would be bypassing
the "horrific coding" problem (I am not saving the doc as html).

For the most part the coding is easily cleaned up in FrontPage by
opening up the doc in FP but it is just the tag reversal that is
bugging me. We have been using FP for the past 5 years and have not
noticed this problem before (I think this just started to happen since
we upgraded to new computers running WinXP but I could be wrong).

Jerry

 

[Guest]

Hi Jerry
You are not wrong, I had no problem with FP in Win98, Win98SE or even in the
Win me, but XP is a different story, but you are right, it is much easier
to format
the text the way you want it AFTER it is in FP, I have both programs open at
the same time, what I do is go to the Word Doc, selce the test I want, then
copy and then just go over to FP and past it in. I hate the double spacing,
to me that is what
really takes up the time, you have to delete all those extra lines, then go
and put in the <br> commands to get the lines broke, but it is worth it, in
the long rum;
gladys

 

[jerry.leblanc]

Hi Gladys,

I am going to try to install FrontPage 2000 on a machine at work and
see how it works (I am sure it is not my imagination that the bold <b>
tag is ending up on the wrong side of the paragraph <p> tag).

We convert several hundred MS word documents each year with very little
problem (guess that goes with experience - using FP since FP 98). The
tag reversal is something that we just encountered. My previous
computer was also an XP machine (SP2) but I would have had FP 2000
installed at one time and then FP 2003 after that. I will try the same
on the test machine - fingers crossed.

Jerry