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matthew stuehler - 27 Jan 2004 02:38 GMT

All,

I'm trying to manually edit HTML pages created by Word.
The HTML pages contain lots of properties that begin
with "mso-...". Is there a reference for these
properties, so that I could edit them myself?

In particular, I'm trying to edit a section that looks
like this:

@page Section1 {
size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.1in 1.4in 1.1in 1.4in;
mso-header-margin:.4in;
mso-footer-margin:.3in;
mso-header:url("./doc_files/header.htm") h1;
mso-footer:url("./doc_files/header.htm") f1;
mso-paper-source:0;
}

so that the information about the header and footer is
stored in the same HTML page, not a separate HTML file.

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers!

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lostinspace - 28 Jan 2004 00:21 GMT

----- Original Message -----
From: "matthew stuehler" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: mso- reference documentation

> All,
>
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>
> Cheers!

Matthew,
The mso's are tab settings inserted into the html to provide
the option of returning the web page to it's design format in Word.
They have no useful purpose in web pages except to damage the name of Front
Page and discredit both MS and users of both Word and FP.

Here's a link to download a add in which removes the "bloat."
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx

In addition, here's a link (which may be broken, requiring copy and pasting)
in which a search at Google Groups Archives of this forum provide related
mails back to May of 2003
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_oq=html%20bloat&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
&as_ugroup=microsoft.public.word.web.authoring&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_m
inm=5&as_miny=2003&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2004&lr=&hl=en

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- 28 Jan 2004 18:49 GMT

Thanks for the help. Actually, I should have been more
clear.

The reason I'm interested in the mso- references is not
because I plan to display a Word document on the web.

Instead, what I'm trying to do is use ASP to build a
dynamic Word document, without using server-side
automation. So, my plan is to have an ASP page write a
document using HTML/XML, set the content type as Word,
then have the user save that document, and view it in
Word.

So, I'd like to use Word-specific formatting like mso-...
to have more formatting capabilities than are possible in
a typical HTML page.

Thanks again!

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>mails back to May of 2003
>http://groups.google.com/groups?as_oq=html%20bloat&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-

8&as_ugroup=microsoft.public.word.web.authoring&as_drrb=b&
as_mind=12&as_m

>inm=5&as_miny=2003&as_maxd=27&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2004&lr=&hl=en
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Bob Buckland ?:-\) - 29 Jan 2004 08:09 GMT

Hi Matthew,

Word 2003 works with the MS XML 'engine' to be able to read/produce XML or a Word document. Word 2000 and 2002 have a 'limited'
vocabulary of what they can understand from externally written sources.

The reference for the Word 2000/2002 XML/web document capabilities would normally be available here for download. Still trying to
get a date for this to occur
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnoffxml/html/ofxml2k.asp
Thanks for the help. Actually, I should have been more
clear.

The reason I'm interested in the mso- references is not
because I plan to display a Word document on the web.

Instead, what I'm trying to do is use ASP to build a
dynamic Word document, without using server-side
automation. So, my plan is to have an ASP page write a
document using HTML/XML, set the content type as Word,
then have the user save that document, and view it in
Word.

So, I'd like to use Word-specific formatting like mso-...
to have more formatting capabilities than are possible in
a typical HTML page.

Thanks again! <<

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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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