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MS Office Forum / Word / Web Authoring / October 2003Word, HTML, templates and custom <body> tags
I am working on an office Intranet, which will use a Java based menu & frames. I would like to have the vast majority of the content done in Word so the people responsible for the content can manage it themselves. However, to get the menu to work in a frames setup, I need the <body> tag to look like this <body onload="javascript:{if(parent.frames[0]&&parent.frames['menu'].Go)parent.frames['menu'].Go()}" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> in every page. Is there a way to setup some sort of include to do this, or do I need to manually edit the code? Ideally I would like to add a template to our office templates that starts a filtered HTML doc with the correct <body> tag. Also, I would like to be able to use CSS to manage the site. In Frontpage you can have a page inherit settings from another page or a CSS file. Can this be done with Word? Any suggestions? Regards, Gordon Hi Gordon, In Word 2002 and 2003 you add external CSS styles through Tools=>Templates & Add-Ins, but you may still have Word styles to deal with. You'd probably need to add scripts and modify the body tag externally, or to use automation/VBA to control the editing process of the documents you want to work with in Word. ========= I am working on an office Intranet, which will use a Java based menu & frames. I would like to have the vast majority of the content done in Word so the people responsible for the content can manage it themselves. However, to get the menu to work in a frames setup, I need the <body> tag to look like this <body onload="javascript:{if(parent.frames[0]&&parent.frames['menu'].Go)parent.frames['menu'].Go()}" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> in every page. Is there a way to setup some sort of include to do this, or do I need to manually edit the code? Ideally I would like to add a template to our office templates that starts a filtered HTML doc with the correct <body> tag. Also, I would like to be able to use CSS to manage the site. In Frontpage you can have a page inherit settings from another page or a CSS file. Can this be done with Word? Any suggestions? Regards, Gordon >>  SignatureI hope this helps you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* The Office 2003 System parts explained http://microsoft.com/uk/office/preview/system.asp > Hi Gordon, > > In Word 2002 and 2003 you add external CSS styles > through Tools=>Templates & Add-Ins, but you may still > have Word styles to deal with. Yea. I continually have problems with Word wanting to make a bazillion BAD styles available. I think styles would get used more if you could build the 3 or 4 styles the office uses into the template and lock them down. As it is, there are just way too many options, with the majority of them being either redundant or just piss poor, but there because some graphically challenged marketing person things the more the better. I am trying to handle that in training. > You'd probably need to add scripts and modify the > body tag externally, or to use automation/VBA to > control the editing process of the documents you > want to work with in Word. So I take it there is no way to make a template that is an HTML format and includes the modified <body> tag? Sure makes it hard to use Word for building an intranet then (at least when I am trying to get a bunch of Architects to do most of the work ;) I'll look at some VBA solutions, or I may just do it manually as content is made available. Thanks for the info. Gordon Hi Gordon, Hmmm, actually, you may be able to work with Word from that angle. Take a new blank word document and save it as an .htm file and apply your changes to that, and try to use it as a template rather than a .doc or .dot file Word may or may not override the body tag, but it didn't in a couple of test saves after adding content. =========== So I take it there is no way to make a template that is an HTML format and includes the modified <body> tag? Sure makes it hard to use Word for building an intranet then (at least when I am trying to get a bunch of Architects to do most of the work ;) I'll look at some VBA solutions, or I may just do it manually as content is made available. Thanks for the info. Gordon >> -- Hope that helps, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office Products family MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* http://go.CompuServe.com/MSOfficeForum?loc=us Have a little fun with Office http://microsoft.com/uk/office/xtra/ Get a Microsoft Certification of your Office App Skills: http://microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/mous/requirements.asp Try the new MS Knowledge Base Help and Support Search Tools & FAQ: http://support.microsoft.com Choose the newsgroups focused on your MS Office applications: via Browser: http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=prod_office by Newsreader: (Outlook Express) news://msnews.microsoft.com > Hi Gordon, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Word may or may not override the body tag, but it didn't > in a couple of test saves after adding content. That is pretty much what I had come to. I was hoping to be able to use a true DOT based template however. After harping on users for some time that we have REAL templates, and they are easy to get to, and you should use them exclusively, now I have to say 'except for intranet pages'. I am sure they will find other 'exceptions' I don't want to hear about ;) Best, Gordon Hi Gordon, Unfortunately, once you save it back as a .dot or a .doc file Word loses any customization of the body tag. Looks like some form of automation, either through the script editor or VBA to modify the source of the web document if you're starting from a .DOT file. ======= That is pretty much what I had come to. I was hoping to be able to use a true DOT based template however. After harping on users for some time that we have REAL templates, and they are easy to get to, and you should use them exclusively, now I have to say 'except for intranet pages'. I am sure they will find other 'exceptions' I don't want to hear about ;) Best, Gordon >> SignatureBob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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