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Ellen G

When cutting and pasting text from Word 2000 professional to Frontpage, codes
appear out of nowhere. There's a yellow marker at the end of a paragraph and
strange <o and p> in the middle of sentences.

They have to be removed manually, which is laborious.

Writer uses normal style.

Has anyone got any ideas for a frustrated lecturer in computer programming?
 
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Ellen G

MD Websunlimited said:
Hi Ellen,

What version of FP?

Paste to NotePad then cut and paste to FP
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Hi,

Thank you for answering.

The version is FP2000.

If we paste to notepad, we lose superscript and subscript codes, which are
used in certain scientific terms. So we really need to keep some codes, just
not the pointless ones, like the yellow paragraph boxes and ones which have
no function like <o p>.

Hope this makes sense.

There is not information on knowledgebase and indeed, colleagues with Word
have no problems.

But I have Word from Office 2000 professional.

Regards,


Ellen
 
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Kevin Spencer

Hi Ellen,
If we paste to notepad, we lose superscript and subscript codes, which are
used in certain scientific terms. So we really need to keep some codes,
just
not the pointless ones, like the yellow paragraph boxes and ones which
have
no function like <o p>.
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You must understand that Word is a word processor application, not an HTML
designer. HTML is a universally standard text markup language. Word uses
its' own proprietary binary code to create a document. And HTML is limited.
Tools for converting Word content to HTML can only do so much. You would be
much better off using HTML in the first place.

You can make orange juice from apples, but it is prohibitively expensive to
do so. Better to start with oranges.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Neither a follower nor a lender be.
 
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Ellen G

Kevin Spencer said:
You must understand that Word is a word processor application, not an HTML
designer. You can make orange juice from apples, but it is prohibitively expensive to do so. Better to start with oranges.
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Hi Kevin,

I'd accept that if we had the same problem with word documents from others,
but we don't. We have many years of experience of cutting and pasting from
Word to FP without these odd codes.

So the analogy doesn't really apply. Microsoft seems to manage to do all
sorts of wonderful things but in this one case, with this one person,
something is interfering. She used to send information in word perfect 5.1,
and that worked well too. And that's a rave from the grave.

But thanks for responding.
 
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Murray

Much of the code you are seeing in there is Office-specific markup intended
to facilitate the interchange of documents between the various Office
applications.

If you first save your document as HTML (or filtered HTML in older versions
of Word), and then copy and paste, you may get much better results.
 
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Kevin Spencer

If the analogy doesn't really apply, then why are you having problems?

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Neither a follower nor a lender be.
 
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