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alyates
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Oct 10, 2002, 2:33 PM
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Does anyone have any ideas or advice on how to deal with a situation that has come up with one of my clients. I have them set up using Article Manager to publish their news stories. The Communications Director writes all of the news in Microsoft Word and then copies and pastes the text into the content field of Article Manager (I have WYSIWYG turned on by the way). All of the Word formatting carries over which then renders anything he does using the formating tools useless. Telling him to write the stories in another program isn't an option.
What happens most of the time is that different parts of the story appear in different fonts and sizes. For some reason you can change some of the text using the Article Manager formatting but other parts stay as they were created in Word.
Thanks,
Adam
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Hays
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Oct 13, 2002, 4:22 PM
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The Communications Director writes all of the news in Microsoft Word and then copies and pastes the text into the content field of Article Manager... All of the Word formatting carries over which then renders anything he does using the formating tools useless. Thanks, Adam |
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ken_itools
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Oct 14, 2002, 11:42 AM
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Another thing you could try is: - in Word, choose Save As Web Page,
- open the .htm page in notepad,
- select all then copy to clipboard,
- in Article Manager, switch to code view (by clicking the "View HTML Source" button <>)
- paste from clipboard then switch back to HTML view.
How well this will work depends on how standards compliant the HTML generated by Word is and on which advanced layout features your client uses in creating the original document.
I'd be interested to know how your testing turns out 
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