![]() ![]() For example:Īnd also to ability to ignore certain styles is useful. It just needs to export the text as is with assigning html tags to each paragraph/character style. Can you please try to implement a feature to import/export the content of a text frame (or all of them) into an html document. Thanks much.I heavily need this feature for book interior formatting. After doing one find-and-replace, you need to click the "No Formating" button at the bottom to clear out previous choices in order to do the next find and replace.Īlthough the issues is not yet resolved in my mind, I think that we now have an existence proof that gets us most of the way. I found Word's Find-and-Replace dialog to be nonintuitive. If the Mellel styles aren't all unique, then great care is necessary.ĥ. As with any global find-and-replace, there are dangers. At that point, the Find and Replace stuff works well at least for headings, normal, bibliography, and footnotes.Ĥ. ![]() After Mellel->RTF->Word, the Word document needs to be copied into the blank template for the organization, so that it has all the right styles.ģ. If the Mellel styles are all at least slightly unique, that helps a lot.Ģ. What I observe, having experimented for awhile, is:ġ. I don't know what I was doing wrong before. Have I missed something? By golly, it works! I can't say that I have an optimized procedure yet, but this was a big help. And every instance of Arial, 12 pt Bold took on the new paragraph style with font, size, style, paragraph alignment, et al. Then I put the cursor in the Replace box, and in the bottom button (Format > Styles), and chose the paragraph style I wanted (Center Text: Times New Roman, 11 pt, not bold). In the Find dialog, I chose from the bottom button (Format > Font) and in resulting window selected Arial, Bold, 12 pt. In my test document I had my Heading 3 set to Arial, 12 pt, Bold. I have done this, and just tried it in Word 2004 and it worked fine, as long as you have the styles in the template. Pkensildavis wrote:I've read a fair number of forum entries on related matters, but I'm still ho I doubt that there is a magical cure to any of this at the moment, but if anyone has found the best routine, I'm all ears. png graphics that look appropriate in Mellel come out much more compressed (small in scale) in Word. Etc.Īnother problem I have encountered is that some of the figures with. Or I can imagine that one could so a search for hidden rtf chafacters indicating outline level, and again replace them in one fell swoop. If so, I haven't been able to make that work. For example, perhaps Word's find and replace would find all titles that should be H1's in the Word template, as judged from font name and font size, and could mark them all as H1's in one fell swoop. I had thought that some tricks might work, but if so I haven't found them. Clearly, this is tedious for a 200 page document. Even though everything looks good (except for incorrect page breaks and some other minor glitches), the document needs to tag every single item with the right template style. However, it is then necessary to go through each and every paragraph of the entire document and use Word's style menu to specify the style. I can copy that and paste with styled text into a blank template. I can export to rtf, import into Word, save as a. Stipulated: this is the "last move," so I am unconcerned about reimporting into Mellel. Wanted: to move that into a Word documented using the organization's standard template for publications, which includes styles for everything. Used for both writing and circulation of pdf drafts. Given: a nicely formatted Mellel document, with styles, autotitles, etc. I've read a fair number of forum entries on related matters, but I'm still hoping that someone has found the optimal way procedurally to deal with the following: ![]()
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