----- Original Message -----
From: "rci" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: Gah! Word KILLED my web site!

SMS,
           I'm not willing to "try" anything with Word related to web
pages.
The last time a similar request was made to me in this NG, I spent an
extensive amount of time to find a solution for that particular user, only
to be informed that the solution which existed in Word/webpages was too
complicated and involved too much time. ("ll provide a link to the archived
thread if it matters?)

Using any WINDOWS procedures to "drag and drop" in creating web pages is a
waste of your time and efforts. Most especially in a software (Word) which
should NEVER be utiliized to create web pages in the first place.

Such things as drag and drop of even copying from Word to FP cannot be done,
because MS drags all the realted fonts, formatting and other garbage which
never should or never was intended to be used in the web page. At least not
in a functional and valid format that would make the pages availble to many
visitors or even retains the proper paths.

Everything begins (at least in correcting web pages) with a URL.
With none, no solution is possible.

I've wasted my time in this NG once again with another visitor only visiting
for this occasion and little chance of becoming a regular participant.

Mr. Buckland?
When will somebody removed this NG?

We have more success in communication with casual Word Web designers in
microsoft.public.word.documanagement

Hi SMS/RCI,

I didn't have any problem using IE on either the
original or the copied .htm file after creating
a copy of the .htm file (and it automatically
copied the folder).  Both were drawing
from the original file folder and both were
still accesible.

In this case it could be a bit of a Windows settings
issue and a bit of how Word is using XML to manage
the content.  Using File=>Save as Web page and using
a new file name in Word rather than use Windows
explorer to make a copy would have achieved a
better result.

If you have used Windows Explorer and in
Tools=>Folder Options=>view  have turned on a setting
for 'Managing Web Pages and Folders' other than
'Show both parts and manage them separately then
copying the .HTM file will also copy the folder.

The .HTM file has a pointer to the 'filelist.xml'
file with reference to a specific file name in
a specific folder. Making a copy of the HTM file
and the folder doesn't change the content of the
HTM file or of the filelist.xml file in the original
folder, so Word is still pulling from the content
it was told to use.  If you turn off the
Tools=>Options=>General setting to have the files
for a web page in a separate folder than the filelist.xml
refers to specific files in the same folder as the
.HTM file so copying all of the files would not need
to modify the content of the .htm or .xml file
as it would still be pointing to a relative location
of the .htm file.

In your Word file are you using a setting for hyperlink
base in File=>Properties?

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lostinspace <lostinspace@123-universe.com> wrote:

Sorry guys... it's an internal site... not accessable to the outside world.

And trust me, the file was hozed without opening it.

Try this:

Make a web page... drag in a pic or two, type some text.

Save it.  Close Word.

Now go to a file expolrer and ctrl-drag a copy of your page... (it will say
something like copy_of_index.html)  It will also make a copy of the _files
directory ("copy_of_index_files").

Now, use IE to view the original index.htm.

It will be hozed.... never opened.

However, the copy_of_index files will work!

How odd...

Regards,

SMS >>