Hi,
I was going to set f'ups, but I'm not sure a couple of
those groups might not be good sources. FWIW, I've
noticed that a lot of folk in the .public.word.newusers
also frquent this group, and there are probably others
I'm not aware of. Usually someone posting here will
get a response, if anyone knows the answer/s, that is.
See more inline:
I have a small txt file that contains snippets of web
pages (to study). I know the file is txt because it
was born in a text editor.
===> Which text editor, and how was the info in it
concieved; paste, manually written, downloaded via IE,
etc.. Lots of ways to do it, and one can get differing
results.
When opening in word 2000, Word seems to 'sniff out'
some of the tags, and decide the file is html. The
result looks a bit funny;
a mix of exposed and unexposed tags
===> Is Word doing conversions when it opens these
files? Maybe setting it to confirm or ask permission
before converting a file would help here.
Depending on how the data gets into the txt file,
perhaps it's only getting some but not all of the tags?
That's why I asked about how it was ''conceived" above.
But the problem is this means I can't use my word
macros to work with the file.
===> Can you give an example of why the macros won't
work? What goes wrong?
Perhaps, if it's simple enough pastes, you could
filter out the problems tags? If that's the problem, I
mean.
Any setting somewhere to force Word to open txt as
txt? Or, for each time this may happen (obviously
very rarely), do I have to
"switch to raw html mode"?
===> Here is where turning off or at least making Word
ask before converting a document may well help.
In Word 2002 and earlier that setting is at Tools;
Options; the General Tab and tick "Confirm Conversions
at Open". Then if you open a .txt but windows wants to
render html, you can tell it not to.
Btw, another txt file with same the first lines (not
resembling html at all) opens properly as txt.
===> I don't mind reasonable cross-posting and most
other reasonable people don't. It's the multi-posters
that get the flames, it seems. You should, however,
set f'ups so the info from all the groups wll end up in
one place for you (and others interested) to read.
Makes it a lot more convenient and still reaches all
the groups once you've made the first post or two.
HTH,
Pop