Saving All Formatting in Round Trips

[Guest]

Hello
I need to be able to do the following
Starting from a (sometimes long and many sectioned) Word document,
1. import into our proprietary product as HTML, which creates separate objects based on applied heading styles (or other tags) within the source fil
2. do our specialized tasks on the HTML files created during input (typically variable replacement and content personalization
3. export to Word so that the output file (with the exception of the task results) is an exact duplicate of the original Word file (with all the same styles applied to and formatting of text, section breaks, section formatting, section specific headers, footers, etc) with automatically updated pagination and an accurate table of contents
I'm losing the section breaks and section-specific formatting along with the accurate paging and TOC. Are there any MS tools available to help with this
It's a huge challenge, and a complicated one. Based on a couple days searching on the Web, it seems to be a unique problem. Does anyone have any suggestions
Thanks
Rakky

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Rakky

In Word, if you save as a Web Page (not as Web Filtered) then Word will
save all information about all formatting. It will round trip with no
problems. But, for your new material, you would need to be able to
replicate Word's HTML in order to get it into Word with appropriate
formatting.

Alternatively, if you and all users are using Word 2003, you could
construct your Word document using the XML schema, which Microsoft
released recently. See http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/default.mspx

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

Hello!
I need to be able to do the following:
Starting from a (sometimes long and many sectioned) Word document,
1. import into our proprietary product as HTML, which creates separate

objects based on applied heading styles (or other tags) within the
source file

2. do our specialized tasks on the HTML files created during input

(typically variable replacement and content personalization)

3. export to Word so that the output file (with the exception of the

task results) is an exact duplicate of the original Word file (with all
the same styles applied to and formatting of text, section breaks,
section formatting, section specific headers, footers, etc) with
automatically updated pagination and an accurate table of contents.

I'm losing the section breaks and section-specific formatting along

with the accurate paging and TOC. Are there any MS tools available to
help with this?

It's a huge challenge, and a complicated one. Based on a couple days

searching on the Web, it seems to be a unique problem. Does anyone have
any suggestions?