Word 2003 - IE6 HTML Problem - Help!

[Harvey]

My sister has Word 2003 and IE6 with Windows XP. When we generate a Word
2003 listing for eBay and Save As Web Page, View Source (html code), Select
All, Copy and Paste into the IE6/eBay HTML description window, we do not
paste in the html code but rather the interpreted code and image as it would
look in a finished Word document or in a browser. To make it work with
IE6/eBay we have to Save As Web Page, open in Word Pad, and then copy and
paste the Word Pad html into eBay. Extra steps are required. We cannot go
directly from Word 2003 html code to eBay.

Alternatively we can paste the Word 2003 html code into eBay while using
Firefox and it works properly. Is there a compatibility problem with Word
2003 generated html and IE6? The Word 2000 generated html on my computer
works properly with IE6 or Firefox.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

My sister has Word 2003 and IE6 with Windows XP. When we generate a Word
2003 listing for eBay and Save As Web Page, View Source (html code), Select
All, Copy and Paste into the IE6/eBay HTML description window, we do not
paste in the html code but rather the interpreted code and image as it would
look in a finished Word document or in a browser. To make it work with
IE6/eBay we have to Save As Web Page, open in Word Pad, and then copy and
paste the Word Pad html into eBay. Extra steps are required. We cannot go
directly from Word 2003 html code to eBay.

Check with a Clipboard viewer[1] for what formats are being provided
by Word 2003 and WordPad. Probably more than one format
is there and IE is picking the first. In order to give IE a different format
you could also paste into a Notepad window and then reselect and
copy the text from it. That might be simpler than what you are doing
now.

Also notice WordPad's Paste Special Edit command.
Perhaps whatever format you need could be pulled from the
Clipboard by it, thus eliminating the Save as Web Page and
Open file steps.


[1] The standard utilities such as clipbrd are demonstrably
deficient. To see what formats an application is *really*
providing with them what I have to do is use the File Save as...
function and then browse that binary file (e.g., *.clp) with
Notepad.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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