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3Z3VH · 06-14-2006, 05:29 PM

Un-bloat and KEEP your MS Word formatting ? Not likely.

The reason MS Word makes it so huge is their heavy use of XML for all the pretty classes they can use for the formatting and such. problem is, Microsoft LOVES to specify the classes used, and every last bit of formatting on each and every individual cell, or if they are being conservative, each and every row. Most coders will simply apply a format to the entire table, and only change the one atribute they want for that row, such as a colour, rather than re-specifying the font, size, colour, spacing, etc for each and every cell.

The good news: You can get the HTML version to have the exact same pretty formatting without all the Microsoft Bloat.

The bad news: You cannot just cut and paste from the finished MS Word you have, into an HTML format.

If you had made this project from the start in Dreamweaver, or Adobe GoLive, the formatting would all be there and it would work great, but now you have to pretty much re-invent the wheel to put all that formatting into the existing document. The good part is you have the raw table already that you can just dump into Dreamweaver or GoLive, and just do the formatting in one of those programs.

Man I hate Microsoft, apparently their Word Webpages now include such things as the name of the person the computer was registered to (M***a K***g) and the fact that it was done on a Dell computer. Why the heck would anyone need to include that sort of info on a webpage ?

06-14-2006, 05:29 PM	#6 (permalink)
3Z3VH Tilted	Un-bloat and KEEP your MS Word formatting ? Not likely. The reason MS Word makes it so huge is their heavy use of XML for all the pretty classes they can use for the formatting and such. problem is, Microsoft LOVES to specify the classes used, and every last bit of formatting on each and every individual cell, or if they are being conservative, each and every row. Most coders will simply apply a format to the entire table, and only change the one atribute they want for that row, such as a colour, rather than re-specifying the font, size, colour, spacing, etc for each and every cell. The good news: You can get the HTML version to have the exact same pretty formatting without all the Microsoft Bloat. The bad news: You cannot just cut and paste from the finished MS Word you have, into an HTML format. If you had made this project from the start in Dreamweaver, or Adobe GoLive, the formatting would all be there and it would work great, but now you have to pretty much re-invent the wheel to put all that formatting into the existing document. The good part is you have the raw table already that you can just dump into Dreamweaver or GoLive, and just do the formatting in one of those programs. Man I hate Microsoft, apparently their Word Webpages now include such things as the name of the person the computer was registered to (M*a Kg) and the fact that it was done on a Dell computer. Why the heck would anyone need to include that sort of info on a webpage ? Last edited by 3Z3VH; 06-14-2006 at 05:37 PM..*