This isn’t a problem I have now, but did have until last night and I hope that it can serve as a warning against complacency.
I had produced a site that looked perfect in Firefox, Safari and Konqueror on Mac, Windows and Linux respectively, but as soon as it was viewed in IE on Windows - total mayhem! The text was all in HTML, as full accessibility was a requirement but it soon became apparent that most of the text, which had been copied from a Word doc, pasted and (so I thought) re-styled in Freeway, had still retained invisible tags/styling from Word.
It was a stupid mistake on my part, because I was in a hurry and didn’t do the right thing: which is to put the copied text into a text editor, convert it to plain text and THEN paste it into the Freeway master document. I was even using Word Zapper but, it seems, to no avail. Freeway rules the world but it can’t legislate for Microsoft’s apparent inability to get to grips with the Web.
So let that be a lesson to all you newbies out there and don’t trust ANY copy unless you’ve stripped it bare or typed it into the FW document yourself.
The one thing I’ve learned was opening Word docs in Apple’s Texteditor and convert the whole shebang to plain text.
Then it’s just a matter of copy and pste from Texteditor …
So let that be a lesson to all you newbies out there and don’t trust
ANY copy unless you’ve stripped it bare or typed it into the FW
document yourself.
Sage advice, to be sure.
It’s also worth noting that Freeway 5 Pro (at least - not got Express
here to check) allows you to paste and match a style already in a text
box.
Edit > Paste and Match Style
I think I’m right in saying this strips unwanted information from the
pasted material.
On 10 Jul 2008, at 11:54, Richard van Heukelum wrote:
The one thing I’ve learned was opening Word docs in Apple’s
Texteditor and convert the whole shebang to plain text.
Then it’s just a matter of copy and pste from Texteditor …
I miss being able to paste unstyled/default - I don’t always want it all in
the same as preceding - can I have it back please?
I had to retreat from latest 5 as it kept dropping away.
all the best
Brian
Heather Kavanagh said recently:
On 10 Jul 2008, at 11:24, madmacstoo wrote:
So let that be a lesson to all you newbies out there and don’t trust
ANY copy unless you’ve stripped it bare or typed it into the FW
document yourself.
Sage advice, to be sure.
It’s also worth noting that Freeway 5 Pro (at least - not got Express
here to check) allows you to paste and match a style already in a text
box.
Edit > Paste and Match Style
I think I’m right in saying this strips unwanted information from the
pasted material.
