Flatenning out a document

[Mike]

I saved a web page to the hard drive, which generated a
folder with all the art work files on that page. I can
read the whole stuff into Word (Word 2002 on XP-SP1).
Looking for a way to flatten everything out, so i can save
it to a self contained file with no references to the
outside. Thanks.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Mike,

If the page contains graphics, you're going to be out of
luck.

If it's just text, try saving as a FILTERED web-page.

I saved a web page to the hard drive, which generated a
folder with all the art work files on that page. I can
read the whole stuff into Word (Word 2002 on XP-SP1).
Looking for a way to flatten everything out, so i can save
it to a self contained file with no references to the
outside.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could try this. Save the .htm file as a Word document. Then display
field codes (Alt+F9) so you can more easily identify what items are linked.
Then select each field code and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink it. This
should result in the graphics being embedded in the document.

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[Mike]

Thanks Suzanne. The recipe worked. The only thing was
that I needed to save the result as a rtf file (the raw
format thingie). This increased the size from 700Kb to
7Mb. But yanno, space is cheap these days, (about 1$/Gig),
managing the space is NOT. Saving the file as doc, was
generating a file with all the pics, but none of the text
or background texture. Saving as htm, was throwing me to
square one, by generating a folder with 30 pics.