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Word styles in FrontPage pages

Paul Danon

2004-05-30, 7:14 am

I wrote a document in Word and used Word styles to include
a hierarchy of headings. This works fine and, among other
things, produces a properly-ordered contents-list.

When I paste the document into FrontPage 2002, the
headings' styles are nothing like those in Word. Indeed,
heading4 headings are more prominent than heading1 ones.

You can see what I mean at:

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/pfed20/project.shtml

Am I doing something wrong by simply pasting Word text
into FP?

Stefan B Rusynko

2004-05-30, 7:14 am

Try saving the page in Word as a Web page (.htm) and File Importing it into your FP Web
Note:
Some features of Word are not supported in web pages
See the details and download the Compatibility White paper at
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;245047
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"Paul Danon" <paul@danon.co.uk> wrote in message news:1512501c44624$8cbf97f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
| I wrote a document in Word and used Word styles to include
| a hierarchy of headings. This works fine and, among other
| things, produces a properly-ordered contents-list.
|
| When I paste the document into FrontPage 2002, the
| headings' styles are nothing like those in Word. Indeed,
| heading4 headings are more prominent than heading1 ones.
|
| You can see what I mean at:
|
| http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/pfed20/project.shtml
|
| Am I doing something wrong by simply pasting Word text
| into FP?

Andrew Murray

2004-05-30, 7:14 am

yes, create the document directly in frontpage and use its styles/font
sizes/heading types. You're bound to lose the formatting - it just a fact of web
devleopment - word is not a web development tool.

The best you can do is reapply the frontpage heading styles that it provides - it
does not keep the style settings you give it in Word. Every type of formatting
will be lost including things like bullet lists, paragraphing, linespacing and so
on, because you're copying the text from word, which when pasted into Frontpage
is converted (behind the scenes) to html. You would be better off saving the
Word file (under File > "save as" or "export" - I can't remember exactly) to
html, then import that html file into the Frontpage web. This way you *might*
have better luck in saving the formatting settings you have in Word.

"Paul Danon" <paul@danon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1512501c44624$8cbf97f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I wrote a document in Word and used Word styles to include
> a hierarchy of headings. This works fine and, among other
> things, produces a properly-ordered contents-list.
>
> When I paste the document into FrontPage 2002, the
> headings' styles are nothing like those in Word. Indeed,
> heading4 headings are more prominent than heading1 ones.
>
> You can see what I mean at:
>
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/pfed20/project.shtml
>
> Am I doing something wrong by simply pasting Word text
> into FP?

E. T. Culling

2004-05-30, 7:14 pm

You might even want to consider copying the Word text into Notepad to strip
away all the formatting. Then use a CSS for new webpage friendly formatting.
In the long run that will be easier ... and better, but initially not seem
so.
Eleanor

"Andrew Murray" <SPAMadBUSTERmurray@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:40b9ad7f$0$8126$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au...
> yes, create the document directly in frontpage and use its styles/font
> sizes/heading types. You're bound to lose the formatting - it just a fact
of web
> devleopment - word is not a web development tool.
>
> The best you can do is reapply the frontpage heading styles that it
provides - it
> does not keep the style settings you give it in Word. Every type of
formatting
> will be lost including things like bullet lists, paragraphing, linespacing
and so
> on, because you're copying the text from word, which when pasted into
Frontpage
> is converted (behind the scenes) to html. You would be better off saving
the
> Word file (under File > "save as" or "export" - I can't remember exactly)
to
> html, then import that html file into the Frontpage web. This way you
*might*
> have better luck in saving the formatting settings you have in Word.
>
>
>
> "Paul Danon" <paul@danon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1512501c44624$8cbf97f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
>

Wally S

2004-05-30, 11:14 pm

Use CSS to format your headings in FP. By the way, you'll get better results
if instead of pasting the document into FP, you drag it onto the page with
Windows Explorer. If you have manually fornmatted your headings instead of
using the automatic Word formatting or the Word outline feature, you may be
able to keep your formatting. If you drag a Word file from Windows Explorer
onto a page in FP, you will keep your font formatting, although maybe not
automatically applied formatting.

Wally S

"Paul Danon" <paul@danon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1512501c44624$8cbf97f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I wrote a document in Word and used Word styles to include
> a hierarchy of headings. This works fine and, among other
> things, produces a properly-ordered contents-list.
>
> When I paste the document into FrontPage 2002, the
> headings' styles are nothing like those in Word. Indeed,
> heading4 headings are more prominent than heading1 ones.
>
> You can see what I mean at:
>
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/pfed20/project.shtml
>
> Am I doing something wrong by simply pasting Word text
> into FP?