OT: PHP

Fyron · #1 November 7th, 2003, 10:51 PM

Umm... what Version of Word 2000 do you have? It normally functions as a WYSIWYG right out of the box...

SpaceBadger · #2 November 8th, 2003, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Umm... what Version of Word 2000 do you have? It normally functions as a WYSIWYG right out of the box...

I could be mistaken on that. I wasn't looking for a WYSIWYG HTML editor, so didn't try to use it that way. I just want to view and edit the HTML as text. Seems odd, however, that they would include the capability to edit HTML in WYSIWYG mode, but require you to buy an add-on to do what I wanted...

SpaceBadger

Fyron · #3 November 8th, 2003, 07:19 PM

You could always rename it to .txt temporarily...

I am pretty sure you can view the source of html as text in Word 2000.

SpaceBadger · #4 November 8th, 2003, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
You could always rename it to .txt temporarily...

I am pretty sure you can view the source of html as text in Word 2000.

Try it. I did, a long time ago, and repeated again just now. Absolutely does not work.

I think that if the opening html tag was left off, and the file was saved with txt extension, and maybe some other jerry-rigging done, then it could be persuaded to let you see the markup tags - way too much headache for routine use in page creation/editing.

SpaceBadger

Fyron · #5 November 8th, 2003, 09:18 PM

I have office XP installed, not 2000. But, I just changed a file extension on a html file to txt, and it opened as a txt file, displaying all the code. Do not save as txt or anything. Go to explorer and manually change the file extension from html to txt (you might need to go to the View tab of the Folder Options to allow it to display the extensions). Ignore the warning message that pops up. Then open it in Word.

SpaceBadger · #6 November 8th, 2003, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I have office XP installed, not 2000. But, I just changed a file extension on a html file to txt, and it opened as a txt file, displaying all the code. Do not save as txt or anything. Go to explorer and manually change the file extension from html to txt (you might need to go to the View tab of the Folder Options to allow it to display the extensions). Ignore the warning message that pops up. Then open it in Word.

Fyron... I know how to change file extensions. I don't need to change anything in Folder Options because the first thing I do with a new machine is go in and tell Windows to stop hiding all of that stuff. I am very happy that this will work for you in Office XP. It does not work for Word 2000 running on WinMe. Really, it just doesn't work. Thanks for trying, but... it doesn't work.

SpaceBadger

Fyron · #7 November 9th, 2003, 01:22 AM

Oh well. EditPlus2 is a much better route anyways.