If so, how? Copying and pasting distorts the document. Print Screen doesn't seem to work either. Tia

you could try

http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/itl/conf2001/dreamweaver/wordtohtml.htm

since the forum has html parsing turned on. Don't know if that would work tho.

Thanks. Will give it a try.

OK. I saved it the way the site said to, but I can't get it in a post.

the forums dont have html parsing turned on so my method is shot ... sorry about that.

Board-O,

IMHO you're probably best off uploading the document to a web server someplace where that file can be stored and then post the URL to it. That way if somebody clicks the link in your post it'll automatically download the original Word document to their computer.

I have no idea what g-man's last post meant. Maybe he's been drinking.

Thanks, wiml. Any suggestions on where to upload it? I suppose I could just take the time and type it out instead. It's a menu with wines and I won't want to post it til Sunday. If I just copy and paste it, it gets distorted.

I really don't do much of that myself as I typically stick stuff like that on my company web server. Try some of the sites in this link:

http://www.freewebspace.net/guide/diskstorage.shtml

Board-O,

Have you tried copying the document and using the "Paste Special" option, selecting unformatted text, or Unicode Text?

board-o, send it to me. i'll see if i can help.

Is the point to maintain the formatting, fonts, etc? If so, you need to use the UBB codes. You can't just use regular HTML fonts because they don't work. So if you want italics or bold you need to use the UBB codes.

HTML is HyperText Markup Language and it's what you use for web sites. But enabling that for a forum or bulletin board like this can cause big problems - if people don't know what they're doing they can alter the page size and layout and make it impossible for anyone to read. So the UBB codes are HTML codes that are agreed on for Bulletin Boards like this. And the moderators have to decide what they'll accept.

Microsoft Office products do NOT convert nicely to HTML or UBB. This has been a sore point for many people. The way they make something bold, etc., in MS Word is not exactly the way you would do it on the web. So you can't format and save as an HTML document and get it to look right on the Web, even tho they have a function that purports to do that - it doesn't work worth a damn. Plus, even if it did, you couldn't get the HTML to work properly on the forum if WS hadn't enabled it and I've tried to play around and it seems they haven't.

So you put your text between the two tags and it takes on that specific format. The slash always indicates the end of the formatting. You can't specify frame size, etc., but you can do some minor formatting on this forum with these tags. There is a list of them you can see - go to the Help button on the forum and then select UBB code.

You use the "[" and the "]" and in those you put the command. So if you want bold, you say "["b]then some words and then close the command with the slash "["/b"]" and the text between is bold. I used the " to indicate - otherwise the code would be hidden from view. Don't use " when you use the commands.

These work:

Function Code Tags
Bold
Italics
Strikethrough [strike] "["/strike]
Unordered, bulleted "["LIST][/list
Ordered,numbered "["list=1] [/LIST]
Ordered,lettered "["list=A] [/list]
List item "["*]
Quote [QUOTE] "["/QUOTE]
CodeSnippets [code] "["/code]
URLs [url] [/url]
URL with name "["URL=http://www.yourURL.com]namehere[/URL]
Email Addresses "["email] [/email]
Images [img] [/img]
Image Aligned Left "["img:left] [/img]
Image Aligned Right "["img:right] [/img]
Image Aligned Top "["img:top] [/img]

Horizontal Rule "["hr] - makes this:

---

Subscript "["sub] [/sub]

And colors:

Red "["color:red] [/color]
Green "["color:green] [/color] and so on:
Blue
Yellow
White
Black
Pink
Purple
Brown
Grey

Just don't use the quotation marks like I did here. Sorry if you already knew all of this.

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Thanks. I have to look into this a few days. I've spent three days shopping and cooking for tonight's dinner and we have a wedding tomorrow.

The purpose of printing the Word document the way I have it is to prevent it from becoming messed up. It's a menu for tonight's dinner with the courses on the left and the wines on the right. Copying and pasting doesn't work.

Greg, thanks, but that seems a bit much for me. I used wiml's link and it worked. Thanks, wiml.