Re: Control Z-Order of text and images in importing HTML documents to Word

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Hi Shannon,

I have an issue trying to open HTML source in Word 2003. The HTML
includes a "background" letterhead that is actually positioned with
CSS and set behind the text using Z-Index.

When opening in Word, the graphic "wrap" setting is by defult changed
-- Word does not seem to recognize the layering within the HTML, and
won't set the wrap to "Behind-text."

The letterhead has to be used graphically because of its unique shape,
so I am really stuck.

How can I instruct Word to either recognize CSS layout or by default
set the wrap to BEHIND TEXT?

If changing the setting in Tools/Options/General for inserting pictures
doesn't help, then I'm afraid you're going to be out of luck. Word isn't
an HTML editor; the only HTML it opens "predictably" is its own
round-trip "flavor".

About the only suggestion I can make, besides, is to try using an XSLT
to "transform" your HTML to valid WordProcessingML.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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