Problem with Importing MS Word Text

I have a problem trying to import a Word document into Dreamweaver MX 2004 for
Mac OSX. Even though the program now can retain all the italics and boldface
attributes of the text, when I attempt to save the Dreamweaver html file, I get
the following error message:

"The document's current encoding can not correctly save all teh characters
within the document. You may want to change to UTF-8 or an encoding that
supports the special characters in this document."

A quick search of Dreamweaver Help under "UTF-8" doesn't give me an answer.

Also, when I import Microsoft Word text in this manner, I find I can't change
the size of the text using the normal "+1, +2, etc." Dreamweaver Text -> Size
commands. I suspect it thinks the text has an embedded Style sheet somewhere
and is preventing me from changing it. Is there a way to override this setting
so that I can easily change Text size?

--Marc

Have you tried the clean up word doc. command? You'll find it listed in
the Commands menu.


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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:26:35 -0700, Linda Rathgeber-TMM <<lightly (AT) sc (DOT) rr.com>>
wrote
(in article <cbp6af$4j4$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com>):

Have you tried the clean up word doc. command? You'll find it listed in
the Commands menu.
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You misunderstand me. I'm importing a Microsoft Word document by using
cut-and-paste.

The only "Clean Up" commands I see is "Clean Up Word HTML" and "Clean Up
HTML." Neither of those apply in this case. I see no "Clean Up Word Doc"
command at all in Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Again, when I paste in the Word .doc file, I get the following message:

"The document's current encoding can not correctly save all the characters
within the document. You may want to change to UTF-8 or an encoding that
supports the special characters in this document."

A quick search of Dreamweaver Help under "UTF-8" doesn't give me an answer.

Also, when I import Microsoft Word text in this manner, I find I can't change
the size of the text using the normal "+1, +2," etc. Dreamweaver Text -> Size
commands. I suspect it thinks the text has an embedded Style sheet somewhere
and is preventing me from changing it. Is there a way to override this
setting so that I can easily change Text size?

--MFW

Marc Wielage wrote:

The only "Clean Up" commands I see is "Clean Up Word HTML" and "Clean Up
HTML." Neither of those apply in this case.

Why not give it a try? You might be surprised.


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Cheers,
Linda Rathgeber
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"Marc Wielage" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I have a problem trying to import a Word document into Dreamweaver MX 2004
for
Mac OSX. Even though the program now can retain all the italics and
boldface
attributes of the text, when I attempt to save the Dreamweaver html file,
I get
the following error message:

"The document's current encoding can not correctly save all teh
characters
within the document. You may want to change to UTF-8 or an encoding that
supports the special characters in this document."

A quick search of Dreamweaver Help under "UTF-8" doesn't give me an
answer.

Also, when I import Microsoft Word text in this manner, I find I can't
change
the size of the text using the normal "+1, +2, etc." Dreamweaver Text -
Size
commands. I suspect it thinks the text has an embedded Style sheet
somewhere
and is preventing me from changing it. Is there a way to override this
setting
so that I can easily change Text size?

--Marc
Can't you save the Word doc as HTML and edit in DW?

Terry

Why not copy the text into a tex editor first, and then copy and paste that
into DW.
I've found that a good way to get rid of all the msword stuff usually.

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"Marc Wielage" <mfw (AT) musictrax (DOT) com> wrote

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:26:35 -0700, Linda Rathgeber-TMM
lightly (AT) sc (DOT) rr.com
wrote
(in article <cbp6af$4j4$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com>):

Have you tried the clean up word doc. command? You'll find it listed in
the Commands menu.
--------------------------------snip----------------------------------

You misunderstand me. I'm importing a Microsoft Word document by using
cut-and-paste.

On Jun 29, 2004, Linda Rathgeber-TMM <lightly (AT) sc (DOT) rr.com> commented:

Why not give it a try? You might be surprised.
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I did, and I wasn't. Cleaning up the file yields the message:

"Dreamweaver was unable to determine the version of Word used to generate
this document. You may manually select a version from the dropdown menu.
However, if the incorrect version is selected, the import filter may not work
correctly."

Using the command does not get rid of the problem.

Let me ask the question a different way: how could I change the text
encoding of the document to UTF-8, since that's what Dreamweaver is
suggesting?

Secondly, nobody has given me any advice on why my document doesn't allow me
to change the size of the text. All of the Text Size and Size Change menu
items are grayed-out. How can I get them turned back on to allow changing
text sizes?

--MFW