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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / April 2007Convert from InfoPath to Word - Issue w/ Bullet Points
I have an InfoPath form with a button that converts the document to Word (following the instructions in Ton's article http://enterprise-solutions.swits.net/infopath2003/article.php?t=convert-infopat h-form-into-word-doc-send-email-attachment-outlook&c=infopath2003) The problem: The InfoPath form has fields that the user's add formatting to - usually bullet points. When the form is converted to Word this formatting is lost. I guess the bullet points are not simple text in the form. Any suggestions for a solution to this problem? I don't know a lot about XSLT, but i have a basic understanding. thanks! steve I don't think you'll be able to copy the formatting over, unless you find a way to retrieve it from the view.xsl of the form and include it in the generation of your Word document. Only data stored within fields can be copied over. I might be wrong, so if you find a way to do it, please let us know. --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > I have an InfoPath form with a button that converts the document to > Word (following the instructions in Ton's article [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > steve On Apr 13, 2:12 am, S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton <SYMWongA...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I don't think you'll be able to copy the formatting over, unless you find a > way to retrieve it from the view.xsl of the form and include it in the [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > - Show quoted text - thanks - that helps. I did find this article, which i guess might be helpful (although it's a bit involved and sketchy). http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/03/19/transforming-infopath-rich-tex t-to-word.aspx I think what i'll try first is to create a Visual Basic program that uses a Word template with a XML schema attached, which will read the information create via Infopath from SharePoint. Should only take me a month or so :-) seem like a reasonable plan? steve Steve, I think I misunderstood your question. If users are entering text in a rich text box, you should be able to get to that data and transform it; I've never tried it, though. A rich text box contains XHTML data, which you'd have to transform into WordML. I agree that the article looks complicated, but that would be the way to go, unless doing the transformation programmatically is easier for you. --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > On Apr 13, 2:12 am, S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > <SYMWongA...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > steve On Apr 13, 7:18 pm, S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton <SYMWongA...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Steve, I think I misunderstood your question. If users are entering text in a > rich text box, you should be able to get to that data and transform it; I've [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > --- > S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton Just to let you know... I finally got back to this project, and was able to get it to work using the template from the article above, plus the information from your article. Very neat. thanks for your help. steve Great! Thank you for getting back to me and letting me know. --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > On Apr 13, 7:18 pm, S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > <SYMWongA...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > steve
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