Block Text without Line Continuation

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billharrison9

Can someone help me with what is (hopefully) a simple question? I have
searched and seem to be missing the answer to this question.

I have a block of HTML that I need to store in my code, then output to
a file.

How can I enter the HTML as a solid block? I would rather not have to
handle them as individual lines with the "& _" at the end of every
line.

Thanks!

Bill
 
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Douglas J. Steele

I don't believe there's actually a restriction on how long a line of text
can be. It will, of course, be difficult to edit if you need to change it!
 
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Nick 'The database Guy'

Hi Doug,

There is in actual fact a limit on the amount of text that you can have
on a single line. I beleive it is currently 1024 characters.

Good luck,
 
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billharrison9

Thanks to both of you for the fast response. Can you give me a little
more time?

The HTML I'm using is like this:

<head>
<meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html;
charset=3Dus-ascii">
<meta name=3DProgId content=3DPowerPoint.Slide>
<meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft PowerPoint 11">
<link rel=3DFile-List
href=3D"FY06displayforDevPlanv6.1212pm_files/filelist.xml">
<link rel=3DPreview
href=3D"FY06displayforDevPlanv6.1212pm_files/preview.wmf">
<link rel=3DEdit-Time-Data
href=3D"FY06displayforDevPlanv6.1212pm_files/editdata.mso">
<title>Test 2</title>

What this is is HTML code that creates a PowerPoint file. I want to
store the HTML in code so that I don't have to worry about reading in a
file, since the file might be moved or unavailable.

So, I want to put the HTML into a module, then write it out when it's
time to create the PowerPoint file. During the process, I will be
replacing embedded variables with data.

(I know... you're thinking this is XMLish, and yes... I would have been
more happy to have done it in XML... but PowerPoint 2003 doesn't do
XML. After working with a number of options, this seemed to be the
easiest for the users.)

So, I have this long block of text that I need to read in as a block,
not as individual lines. How do I read in a block of text?

Thanks!
 
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