Hi experts,
Telling me this can't be done is a perfectly acceptable answer. But, I spent quite a bit of time getting to a place that I thought was the answer only to find out it was stll formatted with HTML underneath.
I have a program where the programmer decided to save printed letters (it is a letter writer which must be used and does not open in Word or Wordpad or any other decent document editor. After printing the letter, it is saved as an HTML document. Therefore trying to reprint it leaves you with a horrible document which cannot be edited. Sure, it can be copied and pasted into Word, but that is a manual step that is not acceptable.
So, I changed the file types so that it looked for Word rather than I.E. Explorer and it worked perfectly. The shortcut to the HTML document when right clicked and opened in default application was sort of "tricked" into thinking that application was Word. So far, so good. The Word document opened the letter and was ripe for formatting except you can't format it, because the HTML code is still on the document.
Does anyone know a quick way to remove it or a document editor which would open the shortcut in a word format without the HTML? I hope this makes sense.
Thanks in advance.
Bert
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Ah. Second thoughts.
I think that you mean that your now have a Word document that simply shows the HTML as the document text.
In theory it would be possible to add the extra bits to create a Word document in HTML, but I think that is far too difficult. Try saving a simple Word document as HTML and look at what is produced.
Copy and Paste from a browser is the only practical way. It can probably be automated, but not all HTML looks good in Word:
What is basically happening is the following. We use this EMR which unfortunately prints letters in its own window (it doesn't open in Word or Wordpad or whatever). After printing the letter, which looks halfway decent but still kind of bad, it saves it automatically to an HTML document in a folder inside the EMR's main folder. There are shortcuts to these documents within each patient's chart. When you click on the shortcut, it opens the document in I.E. in HTML format. Printing from that is even worse and it cannot be edited.
I was able to change the settings in file types so that when you right click on the shortcut and say open in native application, it opens beautifully in Word. You can print from that beautifully, although what I really want to do is be able to edit it.
If you click on the Hide/Show Paragraph thingy (the icon that looks like the one for Pi), it shows small little boxes and arrows which point down and to the left. While you can move some things, you can't do much. I have tried right clicking in the document, choosing delete cells and rows, but that doesn't work.
Any ideas? Have I completely confused you?
So my first interpretation was nearer the mark
As in any document you can use the Show/Hide button with the pilcrow symbol (¶) to display the formatting marks. The down and left arrow symbol is a line return that doesn't create a new Word paragraph.
The document is laid out using a complex table. The second cell in row 3 has another table. This nested table has only one cell.
If you don't want to use the layout that the table gives you, you could convert the table to text.
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by: GrahamSkanPosted on 2009-10-27 at 01:39:50ID: 25670142
I don't understand the bit about not being able to format it, and why you think that the inability is caused by the HTML origins.
What can't you change about the format - paragraphs, styles, fonts, margins or anything else?