MS word to WYSIWYG editor

Pasting text

[inuwolf]

For a few months now I've worked for my school's site just editing text in MS Word usually in Rich Text format (.rtf), and then pasting the text onto the site in a presentable fashion. Although I've become extremely efficient, it would make my job a lot easier if I could just past text from word into Dreamweaver without then having to reformat the outlines or even normal text. (outlines just don't convert, single line breaks in Word become 2 line breaks in MX, and indents and tabs in Word don't appear after text is pasted)

Anyone know of a way to more accurately paste text from Word?

I also have Frontpage, but that doesn't paste text accurately either. I've tried pasting from Word to Notepad and then to MX or MS FP, but nothing does it right.

Thanks, I appreciate all the pointers I've gotten since I registered here at WW.

[lZakl]

I have never tried going from Word to Dreamweaver, but I have gone from Word to InDesign, and there are a few tricks to it. For instance, when you tab, do you use a "hard tab" or a "soft tab" In other words do you use the tab key, or do you use Word's "Auto Tab". A "hard tab" actually creates a tab charactor, recognized by even plain text. The same with the rest of your document, the more automated you have Word (Auto spacing, leading, tabs, breaks, left and right indents, etc.) the less compatibility you have with other programs. I know there is a "Import Word as HTML" under FILE --> IMPORT. But you probably have already tried saving your Word doc as an HTML page (FILE --> SAVE AS) and importing it that way?

Just my thoughts... Good luck!

-- Zak

[inuwolf]

I tried the Import from Word function, which I have actually never tried before, and I encountered the same problems I do cutting and pasting, that is, single line breaks

become

double

(I think because MX interprets <br> as <p></p>), and I still have the tab problems. I don't really understand what you mean by hard tabs, how do you do them?

Thanks