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Cutting and Pasting from Word?!

Sent by Ben Noblet on 6 November 2003 10:10


> While it seems like no independent text editor does a good job 
> accepting Word content, several full-fledged CMSs (FatWire, 
> CommonSpot's PaperThin, Rhythmyx and Red Dot, plus others, I'm sure) 
> have a "save to" feature from Word that does a better job at 
> importing formatted text from Word, and according to the hype, will 
> preserve the styles in just the right way -- changing a user's 
> Heading 1 style of bright green text in Comic Ital to the styles that 
> the site's designers  set.

Sadly, most Word users would not apply a "Heading 1" style, but would just
format the text using bright green Comic Sans Italics :(

And then nothing can convert it into anything useful.

Ben



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