Pasting from Word into Manila edit box

[Vila, Hector]

We've been using several methods @ Middlebury College.  Methods are usually
dictated by tool availability in a lab or a student's PC; they're also
dictated by varying Manila responses to these methods at different times, it
seems.

These are: 

--we routinely save MSWord as rich text, thus eliminating some of the
garbage; formatting inside Manila is still required here;

--we save MSWord as HTML, open and Dreamweaver (some labs and some students
carry this tool routinely now), and "clean up" the bogus HTML left by MS;
then we paste in as HTML: this works well, particularly when students are
trying to format docs in particular ways;

--some students go back and forth between Composer on Mozilla and Manila;
for the most advanced student, one that isn't easily rattled, this works
well.

--and, yes, just yesterday, with a student, we simply did the ole copy/paste
right off MSWord and into Mozilla, our fingers crossed, and everything
"stuck," including most formatting (some paragraphing has to be
rearticulated, though the breaks were obvious, chunked).

Hope this helps this important issue, particularly for educators.

hector


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From: "R. Scott Granneman" <scott at granneman.com>
Reply-To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:50:48 -0500
To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Subject: Re: Pasting from Word into Manila edit box

We tell our clients to download NoteTab Light, a free ASCII text editor. 

Copy from Word, paste into NTL, copy from NTL, paste into Manila. 

They have to redo formatting, but that's no biggie. 

None of our clients mind at all. And it's pretty darn easy. 

Scott 

Bob Raiselis wrote: 

> I have some website users who compose in Word and then cut and paste 
> their text into the edit-this-page window in their Manila website. 
> Creates a huge mess what with Word's strange formatting commands, not to 
> mention things like curly quotes which do not carry over. 
> 
> Anyone solved this? short of having them resave as a text document, or to 
> cut and paste into notepad or something first. Needs to be a user- 
> friendly solution. 
> 
> thanks. 
> 
> Bob 
> 

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