Translate HTML table to Word table?

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Bill Weylock

A guy I¹m working with found that HTML is the only cross-platform format he
could use to generate tabs with his antiquated version of SPSS.

So he sent me a very large (400K) html document filled with tables separated
from one another by blank space, headings, or body text.

Entourage displays it and takes a very long time to go from color spin ball
to cursor.

Then I don¹t know what to do with it.

I copied and pasted it into Word, but got a separate paragraph for each
cell.

Since Entourage displays it instead of offering it as an attachment, I can¹t
save it to the drive and open it in Word.

After all the discussions about viewing and not viewing complex HTML in
Entourage I found I could not find a preference setting that would turn it
off.

Going back to my old trusted Eudora, I remembered why I stopped using it. It
decided it should turn the single message into 22 separate messages. That
was a fun moment.

Any ideas?

I¹ve told the guy he has to buy a new version of SPSS, but in the meantime?
.....

Thanks!


Best,


- Bill





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B

Bill Weylock

But where is the file? It appears within the email message in Entourage.


Best,


- Bill



Try using the Open Web Page control on the Web toolbar.[/QUOTE]




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B

Bill Weylock

Forgot to say thanks.



Try using the Open Web Page control on the Web toolbar.[/QUOTE]




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Bill Weylock

I don¹t see an option to save the email message as an html file. That¹s what
I have to do to open it in Word.

If it came through as an attachment, I would not have a problem.



Save it wherever you like from Entourage.[/QUOTE]




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JE McGimpsey

Bill Weylock said:
I don¹t see an option to save the email message as an html file. That¹s what
I have to do to open it in Word.

If it came through as an attachment, I would not have a problem.

Sorry - I missed the fact that you *couldn't* save it as a html file.
Since my filters automatically delete any HTML mail that I receive, I'm
afraid that I don't have any suggestions.
 
B

Bill Weylock

Thanks anyway.

I had the bright idea to use my Yahoo account and was able to isolate the
file. Word did open it, but it turned out to be such drivel that none of
this mattered. :)

Took Word about 5 minutes to open it and a good 2 minutes to save it. Was
4.5mb.

Thanks again.


Best,


- Bill



Sorry - I missed the fact that you *couldn't* save it as a html file.
Since my filters automatically delete any HTML mail that I receive, I'm
afraid that I don't have any suggestions.[/QUOTE]




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Paul Berkowitz

When you receive the HTML email message in Entourage, go to View/Source.
After the initial headers and a plain text part, you'll find an HTML part.
Select and copy everything from <HTML> to </HTML> inclusive. (If there are
any attachments this will end long before the end of the source, otherwise
just a few lines above the end.)

You can copy and paste that source into an HTML editor such as BBEdit or,
probably, Dreamweaver. There may be some adjustments to be made, but you can
probably save the resulting file with an .html or .htm extension. Try it in
TextEdit too. Then double-click to open in your browser and see hoe it
looks.

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From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:55:02 -0800
Subject: Translate HTML table to Word table?

A guy I¹m working with found that HTML is the only cross-platform format he
could use to generate tabs with his antiquated version of SPSS.

So he sent me a very large (400K) html document filled with tables separated
from one another by blank space, headings, or body text.

Entourage displays it and takes a very long time to go from color spin ball
to cursor.

Then I don¹t know what to do with it.

I copied and pasted it into Word, but got a separate paragraph for each
cell.

Since Entourage displays it instead of offering it as an attachment, I can¹t
save it to the drive and open it in Word.

After all the discussions about viewing and not viewing complex HTML in
Entourage I found I could not find a preference setting that would turn it
off.

Going back to my old trusted Eudora, I remembered why I stopped using it. It
decided it should turn the single message into 22 separate messages. That
was a fun moment.

Any ideas?

I¹ve told the guy he has to buy a new version of SPSS, but in the meantime?
.....

Thanks!


Best,


- Bill





Panther 10.3.6
Office 2004
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003
 
B

Bill Weylock

Paul -


Thanks.

One of the problems was that it was taking Entourage forever to resolve and
display the html, which was a series of complicated and very long bordered
tables.

Copy/paste probably would have worked, but I¹m not sure if there isn¹t some
kind of constraint on how much you can copy.

It is purely academic now anyway... Yahoo email was a full and complete
answer, and no one in his right mind would want to do anything with what I
saw except trash it. :)


Best,


- Bill


When you receive the HTML email message in Entourage, go to View/Source. After
the initial headers and a plain text part, you'll find an HTML part. Select
and copy everything from <HTML> to </HTML> inclusive. (If there are any
attachments this will end long before the end of the source, otherwise just a
few lines above the end.)

You can copy and paste that source into an HTML editor such as BBEdit or,
probably, Dreamweaver. There may be some adjustments to be made, but you can
probably save the resulting file with an .html or .htm extension. Try it in
TextEdit too. Then double-click to open in your browser and see hoe it looks.




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John McGhie

Hi Bill:

Copy/Paste is limited only by your machine¹s available disk space and your
available patience.

I wouldn¹t go above two gigabytes unless you do it overnight :)

Word gets very iffy above 2GB (which is the "documented" limit for the text
component of a single Word document) but I have found that it will keep on
chugging well above that on the Mac file system or on Windows XP.

Cheers


Paul -


Thanks.

One of the problems was that it was taking Entourage forever to resolve and
display the html, which was a series of complicated and very long bordered
tables.

Copy/paste probably would have worked, but I¹m not sure if there isn¹t some
kind of constraint on how much you can copy.

It is purely academic now anyway... Yahoo email was a full and complete
answer, and no one in his right mind would want to do anything with what I saw
except trash it. :)


Best,


- Bill







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