Publish Word Document Content Usercontrol

[bernie321]

Hi

We currently publish our news articles etc on our site via an XML document containing the content of all the news articles, our usercontrol extracts the details from the XML file and displays them within the approprate part of the page.

The only problem is that every time someone writes an article I have to copy the text out of word and format it in HTML placing <br>, <b>, <u> etc where necessary then copy it to the XML file.

If I save the word document as a webpage it brings all the word formatting over, which is no use as the colours etc are not in line with the site, also if these were correct the text would need amending if we updated the site's design.

Is there any method of just putting the basic line breaks, bold and underlining etc from MS word text for publishing?

THanks B

 

[ca8msm]

I'm not sure where ASP.NET comes into this. Try asking in forum68


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[SiriusBlackOp]

I think what you are looking for is a control like this:

http://freetextbox.com/default.aspx

Here is a demo you can play with:

http://freetextbox.com/demos/

You can implement this control in your site and it does an ok job of handling word document formatting. There is a button in this control that cleans up word formatting for you and the HTML tab/property is what you are really after I think.


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[SiriusBlackOp]

Oh... and the Demo on their site doesn't have the Word Clean button available because I think you have to buy the Pro version for about $50. But that is pretty cheep I think.

Senior Software Developer

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[dpk136]

You could always access the word document and read it in. Replace all of the pieces you need to replace a line break with <br>.

or try something like this

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread529047.html

David Kuhn