HEADERS don't save in ASC file

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Dennis - 29 Jun 2004 18:40 GMT

I have a long "master document" with multiple INCLUDETEXT
fields. In EACH included file is a header. In the DOC, this
appears and prints properly. But when I save the file as an
ASC file, only the FIRST PAGE header is included, at the
top of page 1. ALL other headers are lost.

Any ideas?

thanks!

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Jezebel - 29 Jun 2004 23:49 GMT

Don't save the file as plain text. You lose nearly everything.

> I have a long "master document" with multiple INCLUDETEXT
> fields. In EACH included file is a header. In the DOC, this
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> thanks!

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Dennis - 30 Jun 2004 12:50 GMT

Unfortunately, that is a requirement. The ASC file is
uploaded to a mainframe for viewing on that system. No
PC-style formatting can remain in the file. Additionally,
the conversion to HTML also erquires an ASC file from which
to start.

Dennis

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garfield-n-odie - 30 Jun 2004 13:02 GMT

Have you tried printing the "master document" to a file using a Generic/TextOnly printer driver, then uploading the print file?

> Unfortunately, that is a requirement. The ASC file is
> uploaded to a mainframe for viewing on that system. No
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Dennis - 30 Jun 2004 15:01 GMT

Yes, just tried it (thanks for the idea). Unfortunately,
the formatting is messed up in a major way.

>-----Original Message-----
>Have you tried printing the "master document" to a file using a Generic/TextOnly printer driver, then uploading the

print file?

>> Unfortunately, that is a requirement. The ASC file is
>> uploaded to a mainframe for viewing on that system. No
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Jezebel - 30 Jun 2004 23:43 GMT

The fact that "it's a requirement" doesn't make it possible. ASC files, by
definition, are plain text with pretty well all formatting, including
headers and footers, removed.

> Yes, just tried it (thanks for the idea). Unfortunately,
> the formatting is messed up in a major way.
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dennis - 01 Jul 2004 13:09 GMT

Understood. But my questions was "IS there a way, and if
so, how?"

Thanks!

Dennis

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>The fact that "it's a requirement" doesn't make it possible. ASC files, by
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Jezebel - 01 Jul 2004 23:37 GMT

The answer's still no, no matter how often you ask. :)

> Understood. But my questions was "IS there a way, and if
> so, how?"
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Bob S - 16 Jul 2004 19:31 GMT

>I have a long "master document" with multiple INCLUDETEXT
>fields. In EACH included file is a header. In the DOC, this
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>Any ideas?

Ideas? Sure...

Print the thing. OCR each page. Save each page as an ASCII file.
Append the files.

The whole task is problematic though. Word puts the headers in when it
prints, so you need something that acts as a printer driver in order
to get the headers. Actually printing is one way. Converting to PDF is
another way.

One thing that MIGHT work is to print-to-file to the generic/text
printer. I haven't tried it to see what the results are. If it works,
let us know.

By the way, whatever font your generic/text driver uses, or whatever
font your mainframe uses, might take up either more or less space than
whatever font the Word DOC uses, so the converted pages might or might
not fit on a sheet of paper any more. If there is a problem, you will
need to adjust the fonts in Word before starting the conversion.

Bob S

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