How can you turn of page break in Word for web layout

[1DMF]

I'm having a mare with Word 2003, when using it in web layout.

It seems to be entering invisible page breaks when the document gets a certain length, even though web pages don't have 'pages' as word would see them for priniting purposes.

The table / paragrapgh and content seems ok, but if an image crosses this 'invisible page break', a weird missing section in the document appears and the rest of the image seems invisible and you cannot select it for editing / formating etc..

Is there a way to fix this unwanted and bizzare behaviour.

Thanks,

1DMF.






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[kjv1611]

Maybe use a dedicated web editor? If that's an option, of course.

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[1DMF]

No it isn't , that would require staff to have web editor training, HTML knowledge, and let's face most of them have trouble turning their computer on in the morning, let alone use MS Office, so a web editor -> forget it!

It must be either Word, Excel or Publisher , Maybe i'll have a play with XLS as it doesn't suffer with 'page break' issues, where as Publisher is written around a 'page' environment for DTP.

Does anyone know if this Word 'page break' issue is rectified in MSO 2007 ?





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[kjv1611]

Sorry, I was thinking of just using the editor for typing something up.

You don't have to know a thing about any web technologies to use something like Frontpage. You can just start typing, pasting images, etc. It takes care of the HTML part.

I'm not saying it's the best way of doing things. Word has always been a little difficult in dealing with image sizes and such. From my experience, at least, it's just been that I'd have to tinker with the image size, spacing, alignment, etc within Word.

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[1DMF]

Don't be sorry, not your fault I work with idiots ;-)

Problem with front page would be needing licence for every user / install or app server / terminal services.

Then there is the DB intergration with VBA, our SQL server etc.. not sure if you can wrap a mail-envelope around a FrontPage doc?

I guess it's just basic HTML , but then again, you wouldn't need front page extensions enabled on your server if it was just plain ole HTML!

I don't think it's even called frontpage anymore, hmm, as a web coder I would never use it, again means the blind -> leading the blind and cost of training, etc..

Why does my boss always expect me to pull a rabbit out my ass, no budget, no training, no employees with half a brain, this magic trick it getting tedious!



"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."

"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!

 

[kjv1611]

Perhaps the better way would just to make sure the employees who use Word are better trained on how best to use images in Word, ... use correct page layouts, etc.

For instance, Learn2 has some pretty each to follow tutorials that would cover what most any average user would need. I went through several of those a handful of years ago, mainly for Excel and Access, b/c I was rusty on their usage at the time.

Yeah, Frontpage is no longer supported, but it can still be purchased. They have something else now. I wouldn't use it for something long-term for sure.

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[1DMF]

I've already raised my concerns over staff training, I got extremely frustrated when I was being given jip for my new E-Bulletin Sytem not working, it didn't matter how many times I kept saying "It's Word", it just wasn't sinking in!

I've used the mail.envelope method wrapped around a word document and merged to outlook with pre-populated Subject and Member's email address from a SQL database via an Access interface written in VBA.

That bit "WORKS FINE!" , though I can't take all the credit , it was a thread on another post that pointed me in the right direction.

The two issues is 1 word sucks for web layout and 2 MS's word->email converter writes some crazy HTML and some email clients (mainly web based ones) - but even MS's own hotmail doesn't always display the email as it was sent, man when MS isn't compatible with itself, you gotta wonder why we all use it - lol.

the VBA code does the job fine, it's just we are an MS technology user, I have Office 2003 to work with and Word , Email & Internet don't go well together, but hey i'm doing the best I can with what I have!

They will just need to understand what we have is MS Office, learn to use it better and accept its limitations / bugs / annoyances, expecting me to fix MS software and do my day job, is starting to take the michael!



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"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!

 

[fumei]

The two issues is 1 word sucks for web layout and 2 MS's word->email converter writes some crazy HTML "

Yes.

IMO, Word should never be used for anything to do with HTML. I wish Microsoft had never put any HTML editing "capability" (including web layout) in Word whatsoever. It has sucked from Day 1, and most likely will continue to do so.

I think the word "crazy" is overly polite when describing Word and HTML. I assume you have actually looked at the HTML. Bloated crap.

Word is a darn good word processor, and I really wish they had left it as a word processor.

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[1DMF]

What's even more annoying is by default Outlook sets Word as your default email editor - lol.

If you're gonna offer a facility, make the darn thing work and work compliantly!

I don't have MSO2007 and am hoping Word 2007's weblayout / html capabilities have been improved, but seings as I've already had to change simple email systems and coding because they sent submitted form data as a wysiwig form(identical html forms with locked readonly fields using a perl template system) , recipients were getting emails with blank form data, because MSO2007 strips all HTML form field tags & content.

Man , that's not getting more Web / Internet compatible or compliant that's getting less isn't it?

OpenOffice allthough a small thorn in MS's side it's still pretty crap to MSO really especially when you start talking MS Access & VBA.

Unless someone here knows how to get OpenOffice database to convert and run a full MS access database application VBA, forms and all!

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."

"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!