Thanks as always Suzanne. The situation is this and I don't know if I
accomplished it. Chris Perillo who is a tech writer, consultant
evangelist was participating in an HP/MSFT giveaway contest. To enter
you
had to write short 500 word articles on any topic. He invites you to
email it and I was using Yahoo email for the contest (sure I have
Outlook
2007 but I set up a yahoo mail account for the contest).
Here you can see exactly how he is posting these "html documents" and
what
they look like. You can see what the finished product is of what he
wants
at the link below.
http://chris.pirillo.com/
So to get the word count, I composed the document to enter in Word>then
pasted it into Yahoo mail and had to deal with a few zigzags to
straighten
out which is always the case when you do that. I'll show you here what
I
composed and pasted into Yahoo below. I thought all was fine and dandy
and I got back an email from Chris that said, "You have to submit this
as
a simple html document."
I don't know how to make web pages, but I have posted on forums where
they
add brackets for urls, bold, etc. so I knjow how they are formatted so I
went to a site that converts text into simple html and I thought I was
done and that wasn't what he wanted. So then I went to
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_primary.asp and tried to adapt their
methods and that wasn't what he wanted. He emailed back "can't you get
help from a friend." I don't have any people available right here who
make web pages or know much about .html, so when Terry suggested I save
as
a filtered .htm from Word I did that and it did produce an html document
that shows up as a web page. I hope that's what he wants.
What I originally pasted into Word 2007 SP1 was this:
How to Fix Vista When It Won't Boot
1) A number of people who help in this area obsess with interpreting
the stop errors. This is not difficult, and a simple google will get
this
done. I find them basically useful to steer you to a hardware problem or
a
software problem, and don't suggest obsessing or spending much time at
all
on them.
2) Review any new installations including hardware, software, or
drivers.
Check for common hardware problems that could cause the "no boot", even
if
the stop error message suggests it's software induced. This includes
having updated MOBO drivers, checking the battery, checking that cables
are tightly seated, all the cares are in correctly and tightly; and that
your memory sticks are seated correctly, and are compatible with the pc.
Check the integrity of your cable pins. Finding a broken one can save
you
hours of time. Check that the RAM installed is compatible with your
MOBO,
and that it's seated correctly.
3) If you have a Vista DVD, or can borrow one since you don't need a
Product Key to use these tools, either Startup Repair or the Bootrec.exe
tool should get you back up and running.
How to Use Startup Repair: (Any of the links provide screen shots)
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistaultimate/repairstartup/index.htm
http://www.vistaclues.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/click-repair-your-computer.png
4) Here is the MSKB for rebuilding the BCD using very simple quick
commands
from the command prompt which you can either reach with by inserting a
Vista
DVD or by tapping F8 when you start your pc and at the F8 (Windows
Advancd
Options Menu) selecting "Safe Mode with Command"
Using the Bootrec.exe tool to Fix
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us
You may only have to type these commands--it has helped me to fix a
variety
of software no boots consistently:
bootrec /Rebuild BCD
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /Fixboot
5) In addition you can try all of the options at F8 to use system
restore to
fix this. The point here is that sometimes trying system restore from
one
of the F8 safe modes works, when system restore from the others don't.
Since they each take only seconds to try, if the options above don't
work,
I'd try them. The F8 options in Vista are the same as XP, and the MSKB
link i for Safe Mode Boot options is labeled XP by MSFT, but they are
the
same for Vista (they haven't updated to add Vista to the title as they
have with several MSKBs that apply to both).Then you can also try (it
takes a couple seconds) LKG--Last Known Good Configuration at the F8
menu.
Documentation on how to do this follows.
6) Try to F8 to the Windows Adv Options Menu>try 3 safe modes there
(I
don't use WGA for this purpose) and Last Known Good>then I go to Win RE
in
Vista. That gives you a choice of Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking,
and Safe Mode with Command Prompt.
These methods are outlined in
A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP/and Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding System Restore from MSFT:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/faqsrwxp.mspx
System Restore can be run from the Win RE recovery environment from the
same link as Startup Repair, and sometimes it will work from one F8 safe
mode location or from the Win Recovery Environment when it won't work
from
other locations.
He wanted me to convert that text into an html document, and I hoped by
saving it from Word as a "filtered.htm" in the drop down from the
dialogue
box (File>Save As>Save as Filtered .htm) that I accomplisehed what he
wanted since if you right click the doc in recent documents>properties
it
does show up as an html document. It looks the same but it comes up as
a
Window with a file path to "Documents" in Vista.
Maybe what he wants is the .html source with all the brackets, etc.
(sorry
I'm being so crude but I just have never learned to make html web
pages--I
haven't really needed to do that).
I guess what you mean is he wanted the view that View as a Source would
have given me. I will work on following the steps that you sent me.
I'm
determined to "get 'er done" as a recently prominent ditz brain who
wanted
to be a heartbeat away from the oval office who was much less qualified
than Tina Fey used to say.
Many many thanks. You and Bob have always been a great source of help.
CH
If you open it in a browser and use File | View Source, you'll see that
it is HTML. If there's any way to view the HTML source in Word 2007, I
haven't discovered it, and Help, as usual, is useless. According to
Office MVP Bob Buckland, however (in a thread slurped at
http://help.lockergnome.com/office/HTML-pages-Word-07-ftopict929968.html):
"You are no longer able to view the HTML source from within Word's use
of
the MS Script Editor (that has
been disconnected).
"To view and edit the source in Word you'd need to reopen the HTML file
in Word after turning on the Word option to
[x] Confirm Word file format conversion on open
(Alt, T, O, A then scroll down to the 'General section')
and when you open the Word HTML file choose 'Plain text' as the file
type."
I suppose you could also open the file in Notepad to see the HTML
source.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
Hi Terry--
That's an interesting idea. I never thought of using Word to do this
until I was told I was required to submit this document as "simple
html." I'm emailing the doc and I have to use a yahoo account to do
it.
I've saved IE shortcuts web pages as .mhts and not been able to find
much info about that which probably has no relationship to this.
There
is also an option to save a web page as an html which has no relations
to this I bet either.
If I understand you you mean to save as Filtered HTM in Word. Here's
exactly what I did but the result is no different than my original
word
document. That is strange. What you suggested should have/could have
done what I was asking for help to do.
1) I have my original 500 page Word 2007 SP1 document. To my
knowledge
there is no Office SP2 due until 2009. I try to keep up with the
service packs.
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx
2) The original is simple text with 3 hyperlinks. I made a new
document
and pasted it into the new document so I could keep my original and
try
to save as filtered .htm.
With the duplicate, I did this:
File>Save As (dialogue box)>on the pull down with several options I
chose "Save as Filtered .htm"
The title of the document was "How To Fix Vista When It Won't Boot"
(the
recipient wants to post it on their web site and made the request for
me
to send it as a "simple .html document." I'm honestly not sure what
the
difference is between "simple .html" and a "filtered .htm" So I saved
as "filtered .htm" and the document comes up unchanged and the title
is
now "How To Fix Vista When It Wo.htm" (But the text is unchanged.
It's
still in regular English with no brackets or none of the trappings
we'd
normally associate with .html.)
When I right click on the original document (in recent
documents)>properties it is designated as a Word document.
When I right click on the document I saved as filtered .htm>click
properties, it is designated as an html document.
I suppose I could browse in Yahoo email and browse to this document
and
send it to the recipient as an attachment.
But what worries me is it says it is an .html document now, but it
looks
precisely the same.
Thanks for your time very much. I'm confused, but that's not a new
development in a lot of venues.
CH
Can you not simply use SaveAs and choose Filtered HTM as the type?
I am fairly sure that 1) this group doesn't deal with html--it deals
with converting text so that it can be read in Word.
2) MSFT hasn't got a newsgroup on web page design or simple html. I
have made a very small 500 word or so document to submit somewhere,
and I'm being asked to submit it in "simple htnl." I have tried to
convert the links to html but that is not what the person I'm
submitting to wants. I don't know how to convert my text with links
to "simple html." Maybe someone knows where I can get this done.
I looked at
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_primary.asp but I'm
still not sure how to use it to get done what is required. I know
this is off-topic to this group, but I don't find any other MSFT
group
that seems appropriate.
TIA,
CH
