[plug] html -> word using OO

[Denis Brown]

This is on Windows (Denis ducks for cover!) but here is the blow-by-blow...

My source is in a file, blah.htm
Clicking the File, Open menu I can see a list of file types, including "Web 
pages"
Navigate to the directory and open blah.htm
I looked at Format, Page.. just out of interest and it is set to A4 (my 
default) and Landscape (again, my default).  Because this is a wide page, I 
selected Landscape but I know the conversion happens okay in Portrait as well.
Do a Save As... and here today is where things go a little pair-shaped!

The other day I would be prepared to swear, the option to save directly as 
Word 97/2000/XP, which is my default, was offered.  Today I have a range of 
formats, including OpenOffice.org Text document.   I can save it as that 
(despite spec'ing Word as the default) and then I have to go through a 
second conversion (OO.o to Word) to get a Word-readable document.   Maybe 
the other day my brain was more addled than usual!  Anyway, it IS possible 
to do the conversion, albeit in two steps.

But to help Bill, here is my list of output format options when having 
opened an HTML document just in case it relates to some compile-time 
options (missing translators??) ...

Web Page
OO.o 1.0 Web Pages - template
OO.o Text Document (OpenOffice)
Starwriter/Web 5.0 Template
Starwriter/Web 4.0 Template
Starwriter 5.0 (OpenOffice.org Writer/Web)
Starwriter 4.0 (OpenOffice.org Writer/Web)
Starwriter 3.0 (OpenOffice.org Writer/Web)
Text (OpenOffice.org Writer/Web)
Text Encoded (OpenOffice.org Writer/Web)

Apart from the egg on my face re the all-in-one-step conversion, I hope 
this list of formats helps in some way!
Cheers,
Denis

At 10:23 31/01/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi Denis, what menu choices did you use?  I open the html document, and
>"save as" only allows output in html formats or plain text where all
>formatting is lost.  Even when open, I cant find anything that converts
>from the "online format" to a word processor format.  Seems like once
>its html, it wont go back!  Saw the traffic on the topic, but nothing
>there actually described "how" you do it - and it appears that my OO
>(built from source - 12 hour compile on 1.4 athlon!) may be missing
>"something"!, so I dont even know IF I am missing something from the
>menus.
>
>BillK
>
>On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:58, Denis Brown wrote:
> > At 06:38 31/01/2003 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > >I have opened a html document in OO and want to do some modifications
> > >and then save it out as a MSword document in word format.  OO appears to
> > >only allow html to be kept as html with the resulting html type page
> > >formatting (eg, page size etc).  Is there a workaround?
> >
> > Strange... I did this myself only the other day and it worked fine.  In
> > fact it became a query on this list -- a way to automate the process for a
> > series of such conversions.   What version of OO.o I wonder?   Mine is
> > 1.0.1 but I think there's a 1.0.2 in the wind.
> >
>
> >
> >
>--
>Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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