Re: HTML with position:absolute to Word

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From: MarkR (markrREMOVE_at_THIS.FOR.MAILING.exed.nl)
Date: 12/29/04


Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:39:00 +0100

Hi Bob,

Thnx for your reply.
The Word version is 2000.

I have tried to recreate the page in Word and export it to HTML. Problem is
that the margin text is made an image by Word! (I used textframe for
positioning...)
As far as I could think of no other solution than using tables fits my
needs.

A little example:

margintext This is the normal text
                            This is the normal text
                            This is the normal text
                            This is the normal text
For HTML, I used margin-left:15%; for the normal text, <div> with
position:absolute and left:1% for the margintext.

> Hi Mark,
>
> You didn't mention the version of Word you're using
> or very many specifics. Word's web authoring tools
> are primarily for creating a web page from a Word .doc
> file and maintaining all of the content needed to
> recreate the .DOC file, and, where possible to have
> IE show the Word web document as it would appear in
> Word. Basically, Word is better at converting .doc
> files to .htm than it is at converting outside created
> .htm files to .doc files with the same look and feel.
>
> Word does support position:absolute through its interpretation
> of styles and, depending on version, can work with CSS
> style sheets.
>
> What you may want to try is to create a Word document laid
> out the way you would like it to appear in your browser and
> use File=>Web Page Preview then View=>Source to see the
> Word default coding.
>
> =======
> <<"MarkR" <markrREMOVE@THIS.FOR.MAILING.exed.nl> wrote in message
> news:cqr6oh$jsu$1@news2.solcon.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I have a HTML page, properly formatted in IE, and I save that document to
> <filename>.doc
> It seems like Word is ignoring the position:absolute attribute.
> Can you give me a solution/workaround?
>
> It has to be possible to make some text in the left margin, save the html
> as
> .doc file and still have the same layout as the original.
>
> thnx,
>
> Mark<<
> --
> Let us know if this helped you,
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
> Office 2003 Editions explained
> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx
>
>
>
>



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