Ektron® eWebEditPro Developer's Reference Guide

Conserve Word Formatting
Pros
Cons
Configure
• Convert Word styles to standard HTML where possible.
• Conform to style sheet by discarding some Word styles.
Editing in Microsoft Word
Each method is explained, with their pros and cons and how to configure them.
This approach preserves Word formatting where possible. It is impossible to
retain all formatting because the HTML standards do not support all of Word’s
formatting features. Also, Word uses CSS styles that are not available to the
eWebEditPro when copying and pasting from the clipboard.
You will retain more or Word’s formatting if you specify a style sheet file (.css) that
duplicates the styles used in Word. To make this task easier, eWebEditPro
provides the ektnormal.css file, which is based on MS Word 2000’s Normal.dot
style template.
• Preserves as much Word format as possible
• Word styles may cause problems when the user tries to change formatting in
eWebEditPro. For example, if an inline style attribute is used to underline
text, clicking eWebEditPro’s underline button has no effect.
• Content is large due to inline style attributes
• Will probably display differently in older browsers
In your configuration XML data (for example, config.xml), set the following
attributes.
SPAN
Options
Ensure that mswordfilter and autoclean are false. Both attributes may
remove Word formatting. Also, ensure both preserveword attributes are true;
otherwise, Word formatting is lost.
If you want to retain even more HTML tags from Word, set reducetags=
"false".
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