How to extract HTML code from MS Publisher - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Craven Morehead · 03-12-2008, 07:53 AM

I have Office 2003 Professional with Publisher. I'd like to create some html email templates for Salesforce our contact management system using Publisher and copy the html code into Salesforce. Salesforce will accept html code but I don't know how to extract the html code that Publisher creates for input into Salesforce. Any ideas? Trying to do this on the cheap, and not get to technical as I'll eventually hand this off to a much lesser technical group.

BTW Salesforce.com is amazing. If you're looking for contact management, this IS the system. No doubt about it. I've used Goldmine and SalesLogix in the past and SF blows them away.

Jinn · 03-12-2008, 08:00 AM

What options does Publisher give for exporting/saving? If it lets you export AS .htm(l), simply save it out and open it in a text editor to get the HTML.

I've never used Publisher (?) to design anything in HTML.

Craven Morehead · 03-12-2008, 11:16 AM

^ thanks, I sort of did that by saving the files as .htm and viewing it through MIE. Then I viewed source and copied the html code. However the graphic I embedded did not copy. But at least I'm gettting closer.

Jinn · 03-12-2008, 11:28 AM

The graphic you embedded is going to show up in the HTML under an img src tag. Search for it, and find out what path it is expecting the image to be in from where the .html itself is.

For example, it could be at "../../image.jpg". To have the image visible, it would just need to be two directories below the html file, whenever you distribute it.

The best idea is to make a directory called "img" in the same directory that you put the publisher file, and keep all the embedded images there before you put them in. When you export it, move the img directory with the .htm.

Craven Morehead · 03-13-2008, 06:15 AM

^ thanks, I'll try that.

03-12-2008, 07:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
Craven Morehead Custom User Title	How to extract HTML code from MS Publisher I have Office 2003 Professional with Publisher. I'd like to create some html email templates for Salesforce our contact management system using Publisher and copy the html code into Salesforce. Salesforce will accept html code but I don't know how to extract the html code that Publisher creates for input into Salesforce. Any ideas? Trying to do this on the cheap, and not get to technical as I'll eventually hand this off to a much lesser technical group. BTW Salesforce.com is amazing. If you're looking for contact management, this IS the system. No doubt about it. I've used Goldmine and SalesLogix in the past and SF blows them away.

03-12-2008, 08:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jinn Lover - Protector - Teacher Location: Seattle, WA	What options does Publisher give for exporting/saving? If it lets you export AS .htm(l), simply save it out and open it in a text editor to get the HTML. I've never used Publisher (?) to design anything in HTML. __________________ "I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel

03-12-2008, 11:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
Jinn Lover - Protector - Teacher Location: Seattle, WA	The graphic you embedded is going to show up in the HTML under an img src tag. Search for it, and find out what path it is expecting the image to be in from where the .html itself is. For example, it could be at "../../image.jpg". To have the image visible, it would just need to be two directories below the html file, whenever you distribute it. The best idea is to make a directory called "img" in the same directory that you put the publisher file, and keep all the embedded images there before you put them in. When you export it, move the img directory with the .htm. __________________ "I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel

03-12-2008, 11:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
Craven Morehead Custom User Title	^ thanks, I sort of did that by saving the files as .htm and viewing it through MIE. Then I viewed source and copied the html code. However the graphic I embedded did not copy. But at least I'm gettting closer.

03-13-2008, 06:15 AM	#5 (permalink)
Craven Morehead Custom User Title	^ thanks, I'll try that.