Inserting Word page

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Thor

What's the best way to insert formatted text from Word into FP? I have to do
it once a month, and I never really like the bulky code that results. OTOH,
I don't want to take the time to go through a text version and then redo all
the formatting manually.
 
For most, but not all, Word pages:
Open a new page in FrontPage Design or Normal view, and leave it blank.
Reduce FrontPage to a small window, leaving the blank page showing.
Use Windows Explorer to find the Word document, then drag it onto the blank
page and release.
In most cases, the formatting is retained, without the bloat.
 
Very clean. Thanks.

However, now I have another problem. The text appears in what I can only
call "near-bold." What I mean is, it's heavy, but I can just about make out
the actually bolded parts. The font is Times Roman the size is shown as
3(12).

The way I've gotten around this till now is by copying the text into my web
page -- along with all the junk, preserving the source formatting. That
brings it in as Times Roman, but now the size is shown as 12pt. and it is
normal weight.

Have you any suggestions? I can't use your excellent solution unless my
readers can perceive the bold type clearly. (this is alumni class notes.
Every classmate name is bold)
 
Can you post a link to a converted page, or paste a snippet here that
includes any <font...> tags?
 
1) Retype it manually into Frontpage?

2) Copy and paste in to Notepad, then copy in to Frontpage (at least then
you'll have nothing but clean, pure asccii text) ?

Once you paste this into FP, you'll have to do the reformatting of text &
paragraphs (most likely) - but if it gets rid of the extraneous code that
Word generates, the effort will be worth it in the long run. However I'd
say there's less effort involved doing a copy/paste from Word to Notepad,
and Notepad to Frontpage, than trying to delete all the strange formatting
that results from copy and pasting straight from Word to Frontpage or from
extracting the good code from the Word-HTML conversion.
 
Thanks for your suggestion, Andrew. Actually, that's what I often do.
Ronx's suggestion of drag-and-drop does it all in one move, retaining the
formatting. But there's a side problem, in that it makes all the text heavy,
and yet it's not "bold," i.e., I can't make it a regular font. Get around
that and d-and-d is a great solution.
 
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