Re: Weird little problem!

Henry,

Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I've haven't the problem until
the past two days mainly because the articles I've prepared in Word
2003 for the newsletter I put together don't have any formatting
beyond bold, italics and so on. The problem started when I received
two articles from a friend of mine. He uses Word 2007 and he did
'bullet' formatting, indentations and such. So apparently I pasted
the extra formating from Word when I moved it from his article and
didn't realize it.

I have Python up and running, but I'm very new to that language and
it'll take some time for me to get up to speed in using that aid.

BTW, through the wonders of Yahoo, I got your second message before I
got this first one, so I didn't know what you were typing about! :->
I had to log on to the group here to read the first one!

Thanks again,

Frank Jordan

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> Frank:
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> > ...So problem worked around for now, but still would like to know what
>; > the problem is!
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> Haven't imported text directly from Word in a while. I've always found
> it a bit frustrating if only because so many useless paragraph formats
> are imported at the same time. But I think some of the problem may
be in
> Word. I've seen the original problem you described exhibited within
Word
> itself, particularly where lists, indents, or tables are involved.
> Without being able to see where the text codes are being placed (as you

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Frank:

> ...He uses Word 2007 and he did
> 'bullet' formatting, indentations and such.

Bullet formatting will do it. I recently imported a Word 2003 document
into Google Docs and Spreadsheets, a web-based application which allows
any number of people to collaborate on a document without destroying the
original or the need to keep individual copies on their own computers.
Everyone can work and comment on the latest version of the document. The
"word processor&quot; is a package originally called "Wordly" before Google
bought them, and it's HTML-based. Word's internal HTML conversion throws
too much unneeded crap into a file and, as I found, doesn't preserve the
formatting well, so I just uploaded and let Google do the conversion. As
expected, it lost the custom bullet I had used, but I ended up with
extraneous bullets on blank lines and other anomalies that took forever
to unravel. Eventually I got a reasonable facsimile of the original.

Bulleted paragraphs have also given me problems within Word itself, even
without exporting them. I know how to handle them in Mozilla and
Thunderbird. It ain't always obvious, particularly if you have separate
unbulleted paragraphs under a bullet. But Word threw other monkey
wrenches into the mix.

HB

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