Hi Don,
It was a very nice Holiday for the family
I hope yours was as well.
The original poster mentioned wanting to allow folks to open an 'existing' web page
in Word (actually only a portion of the page g) to edit it. My assumption, from that description, is that it was not created in
Word.
So, if the goal is to use the 'editor' software at hand, without having any 'autostuff' involved, you can do that in Word if you
turn on [x] confirm conversion at open in
Tools=Option=General and then use File=open on the .htm file
you get a conversion dialog. Selecting 'plain text' (text, if in Word 2000)
will open the original file, as HTML source, as is and Word will
not add any of the 'bloat' g you refer to when saving it back.
It's basically an 'enhanced' Notepad when in that mode.
If, on the other hand, the web page was created in Word and
is then opened in Word and saved back out from Word as a Word
Filtered Web page, there is no direct HTML experience, just
updating and resaving a page, or even passing it back to a system
that uses input to update existing pages. If that last part is
the case then creating an HTML form in Word that puts out the needed
'portion' of the page (i.e. just the content) that can then be pulled
via email or 'post' process and by an experienced web author or
an automation process, incorporated into a Web page. That works pretty
well.
There are a number of reasons folks use Office in corporate settings one of them is that they're not going to get approval for
additional software on user's machines
or they're not going to get support for any training or 'special use work' on software
other than what has an Office 'nameplate' on it.
So it's not a matter of encouraging or discouraging (primrose path, eh g), it's just a question of 'is this is the tool available'
can I get to a result I can live with.
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"Don" wrote in message 7.102...
Hello Bob,
Best of holidays to you and yours. Health and happiness for
2006.
Expecting "novices" to sift through the Word bloat in a text file format,
while attempting to conform to the non-addition of Word Syles is
stretching the imagination just a bit g
I'm sure you agree?
html can be difficult enough! Why add to the dilema.
Finding a professional or even somebody non-pro who deals with html on a
regular basis and expecting either of the aformentioned to have either
the patience or tolerance to sift through any of the non-valid or
deprecated data that Word adds to html is stretching the imagination even
further than the aforementioned stretch for "novices" BG
Although using Word might be acceptable for a minimum design of web a
page?
What stray-primose-path has that novice been led down when they decide
they need some real functionality and attempt to find ways of improving
the BAD Word html?
Don't answer!
They start from scratch with both tools and methods which acceptable and
useable. However most of all, html which somebody may assit them with
errors, and willingly.
Word html fails miserably on any of the above accounts.
I don't care how many options or filters you attempt to set in Word!
Bottom-line is you'll always end up with crap!
So please explain why myself, you or anybody should encourage folks to
waste their time using Word to create web pages?
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
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