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Robert R. Rahl
Periodically I help a friend update her Website. She has always used Word on the
Windows platform and I have always used Word on a Macintosh and until now I haven't
encountered any cross-platform incompatibility, for example when I was using Word
2001 for Mac.
I am currently running Word 2004 for Mac (version 11.1) on Mac OSX (version 10.3.7).
Whenever I open an HTML document created by Word for Windows I experience the
following problems:
A message pops up saying "Some of the files in this Web page aren't in the expected
location. Do you want to download them anyway? If you're sure the Web page is from a
trusted source, click Yes." I click on Yes.
As soon as I save the document, whether or not I have made any changes to it, a
section of the Style Definitions (visible by viewing the HTML source) is replicated
in the <HEAD> section. The Style Definitions are normally text which has been
commented out so that it doesn't appear when viewing the document in a browser but
this erroneously replicated section is not commented out and so it appears in the
browser. Here's a brief sample of the text I'm talking about.
p.MSONORMAL {mso-bidi-font-size:10pt;} li.MSONORMAL {mso-bidi-font-size:10pt;}
div.MSONORMAL {mso-bidi-font-size:10pt;} etc., etc., etc.
Each time the document is saved (whether or not any changes have been made), another
section of erroneously replicated style definitions is added. Pretty soon there are
dozens of lines of it appearing at the top of the Web page when viewed in a browser.
I am able to work around the problem by viewing the HTML source and editing out the
spurious text before saving it, but this is very cumbersome when I am making minor
changes to a large number of documents.
I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and, if so, whether there
is a more satisfactory solution available or at least an explanation for what is
occurring.
RRR
Windows platform and I have always used Word on a Macintosh and until now I haven't
encountered any cross-platform incompatibility, for example when I was using Word
2001 for Mac.
I am currently running Word 2004 for Mac (version 11.1) on Mac OSX (version 10.3.7).
Whenever I open an HTML document created by Word for Windows I experience the
following problems:
A message pops up saying "Some of the files in this Web page aren't in the expected
location. Do you want to download them anyway? If you're sure the Web page is from a
trusted source, click Yes." I click on Yes.
As soon as I save the document, whether or not I have made any changes to it, a
section of the Style Definitions (visible by viewing the HTML source) is replicated
in the <HEAD> section. The Style Definitions are normally text which has been
commented out so that it doesn't appear when viewing the document in a browser but
this erroneously replicated section is not commented out and so it appears in the
browser. Here's a brief sample of the text I'm talking about.
p.MSONORMAL {mso-bidi-font-size:10pt;} li.MSONORMAL {mso-bidi-font-size:10pt;}
div.MSONORMAL {mso-bidi-font-size:10pt;} etc., etc., etc.
Each time the document is saved (whether or not any changes have been made), another
section of erroneously replicated style definitions is added. Pretty soon there are
dozens of lines of it appearing at the top of the Web page when viewed in a browser.
I am able to work around the problem by viewing the HTML source and editing out the
spurious text before saving it, but this is very cumbersome when I am making minor
changes to a large number of documents.
I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and, if so, whether there
is a more satisfactory solution available or at least an explanation for what is
occurring.
RRR