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bell-lady - 04 Oct 2004 15:17 GMT

I have several web pages authored and maintained in MS Word and/or WordPad.
When I open them in Word I usually see the 'web view', but I can edit it.
Now I am seeing only html and cannot get the web view to appear. I haven't
made many changes to the software on the PC, but did install XP SR2. How can
I get my web view to edit back? I have tried both Word97 (my usual choice)
and W2000. I even reinstalled (repair mode) Word97 and patches to no avail.

Thanks.
Ann in PA

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Bob Buckland ?:-\) - 04 Oct 2004 17:18 GMT

Hi Bell-lady Ann,

Word 97 and Word 2000 use different approaches and tools
for handling HTML pages. In Tools=>Options=>General
turn on [x] Confirm Conversions at open
and see if it lists 'HTML' as a file type when then
opening your web page via File=>Open in WOrd.

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I have several web pages authored and maintained in MS Word and/or WordPad.
When I open them in Word I usually see the 'web view', but I can edit it.
Now I am seeing only html and cannot get the web view to appear. I haven't
made many changes to the software on the PC, but did install XP SR2. How can
I get my web view to edit back? I have tried both Word97 (my usual choice)
and W2000. I even reinstalled (repair mode) Word97 and patches to no avail.

Thanks.
Ann in PA

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bell-lady - 06 Oct 2004 02:35 GMT

thanks, Bob...I turned on the conversion notification in Word97. It now asks
me if I want to convert from HTML, and I let it do so. Now it does open an
approximation of the graphic page (not just html code on white page any
more), but it says "The Windows reegistry has reported that one or more
required files are damaged or missing. To correct this problem, run Word
Setup again." As I said before I have already re-run setup twice trying to
fix this problem. I remember receiving this same error message for a few
weeks before the conversion stopped working, so I doubt its those missing
files..
As it opens now, the background, fonts etc. are there but all pictures and
links are fragments of html code with relative paths in some filenames.
Files that are all hyperlinks just show the colored background, titles and
text, and only{HYPERLINK "filename.html"}for all the links (and I'd assume
photos also).

Further suggestions? It used to open in a perfect WYSIWYG copy, photos and
all, and could be edited, and saved as html again...

Ann in PA

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Bob Buckland ?:-\) - 09 Oct 2004 05:35 GMT

Hi Ann,

Do you have a URL for this page? It's not clear if
there are features in the page that Word97's add in does
not understand or if there may be some corruption in the
Word 97 HTML add-in that is causing this. (Reinstalling
usually doesn't clear up that one).

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thanks, Bob...I turned on the conversion notification in Word97. It now asks
me if I want to convert from HTML, and I let it do so. Now it does open an
approximation of the graphic page (not just html code on white page any
more), but it says "The Windows reegistry has reported that one or more
required files are damaged or missing. To correct this problem, run Word
Setup again." As I said before I have already re-run setup twice trying to
fix this problem. I remember receiving this same error message for a few
weeks before the conversion stopped working, so I doubt its those missing
files..
As it opens now, the background, fonts etc. are there but all pictures and
links are fragments of html code with relative paths in some filenames.
Files that are all hyperlinks just show the colored background, titles and
text, and only{HYPERLINK "filename.html"}for all the links (and I'd assume
photos also).

Further suggestions? It used to open in a perfect WYSIWYG copy, photos and
all, and could be edited, and saved as html again...

Ann in PA >>

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