Re: Copy with formatting

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Hi Kenneth:

Save out of Word as a "Web Page".

Open the file in TextEdit, copy what you want and paste into FireFox.

Word puts a "list" of available formats on the clipboard. Each receiving
application publishes a "list" of the formats it can accept, in the order in
which it prefers them.

The first common match in FireFox is "Unformatted Text".

If you cause Word to first convert the file to HTML, FireFox will be quite
happy with it.

In the Word Save As dialog, there are two extra options: "Save entire file
into HTML" and "Save only display information". The first gives you XML
containing rich formatting. The second is a stripped down version.

For use on the Internet with low bandwidth, many authors use the second
option. If you want the viewer to be able to re-create the document exactly
the way it was in Word, use the first option: the file then contains a lot
more information enabling Word on the recipient's computer to rebuild a Word
document from the resulting XML.

With both formats, Word pre-pends a Cascading Style Sheet at the top of the
file. If you want to use your own style sheet, you need to remove the
internal one using TextEdit. Mac Word can't remove the STYLE element
automatically.

Hope this helps

On 7/11/06 7:19 AM, in article C175574E.2775%kenneth.kvalvik@xxxxxxxx,
"Kenneth Kvalvik" <kenneth.kvalvik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 06-11-06 21:06, in article
1hodwc1.1km6z7tqkbx5iN%korventeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Corentin Cras-Méneur"
<korventeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kenneth Kvalvik <kenneth.kvalvik@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

The selected text is always pasted as unformatted text.

Does anybody know a solution for this?

Can you copy formatted ext from any other app and get it to be pasted as
formatted in your browser??

Actually, I can´t paste formatted text from TextEdit either to Firefox,
Opera or any other browser I´ve tested. But if I copy from Firefox to
Firefox, all formatting is kept.

The reason I want this is simple, I´m editor of a news website. We use a
Content Management System with a wysiwyg editor in Firefox.

But all articles are written in Word and then copied to the CMS. It´s a huge
job to reformat all articles in the CMS after copying. Worse is that all
tables are dropped...


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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

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