Re: Weird little problem!

The reason I bought PageStream is to do a newsletter for the SF club
I'm in. I did the newsletter with Word on the first issue but never
again (shudder!). From my previous use of the Atari version and the
price of the non-pro version, it was a great relief to start using it
again!!!

As you said trying to bring text from Word to other programs or
formats since the people who now are in charge of Word seem to want
you to use their product exclusively!?! I use it primarily for
checking spelling on the fly and somewhat the grammar. But now I know
what to look for when I cut and paste from the 'monster'!

Thanks, Henry and all of the rest of you in solving this problem for me!!!

Frank Jordan

--- In PageStreamSupport%40yahoogroups.com">PageStreamSupportyahoogroups.com, Henry G Belot <hbelot...>
wrote:
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> Frank:
&gt;
> > ...He uses Word 2007 and he did
> > 'bullet' formatting, indentations and such.
&gt;
> 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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Frank:

> The reason I bought PageStream is to do a newsletter for the SF club
>; I'm in. I did the newsletter with Word on the first issue but never
&gt; again (shudder!)....

What an exercise that is with Word! I've had to do a bit of that kind of
thing lately, using Word to create posters. But then it is a word
processor, not a layout program, so I can't scream too loudly. Only the
next door neighbors can hear me.

&gt; ...I use it primarily for
> checking spelling on the fly and somewhat the grammar....

If you want to check spelling on the fly, you might try "Spell Cather.&quot;
Don't have the .url handy at the moment, but respond in private if
you're interested. It works system-wide in almost any application you
want it to, including Word. I have on-the-fly turned off in Word and let
Spell Catcher do that. It's checking my spelling as I write this and has
caught a number of typos.

Careful with the grammar checker. I don't think they've updated it since
they bought Grammatik (which is what it is) in the late 70's. Some of
its advice is erroneous. The language person who writes weekly in The
Boston Globe did a whole column about it with a follow-up about a month
ago. She was able to get it to produce numerous errors. And I had to
fight with an author whose manuscript I was editing because I was fixing
a problem in her text, Word was flagging it, and she was changing it back.

Back when it was a standalone product, it was upgraded every year, but I
doubt much has happened since. Most people don't know what those green
underlines mean and don't even realize that there's a grammar checker
there. So, Microsoft doesn't seem to bother with it. It's more
productive to add obvious features. Notwithstanding, it's a fairly
amazing product and can be quite useful. When using it, you should first
set up its properties to reflect the type of writing you're doing.
Otherwise, it will give you inappropriate advice. It can be customized
quite a bit.

> ...But now I know
>; what to look for when I cut and paste from the 'monster'!
>

I added one more method in my response to Don.

> Thanks, Henry and all of the rest of you in solving this problem for me!!!
&gt;

That's what the group is for. You're welcome.

HB

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