Word .doc to C5 content?
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Hello
Text pages were super easy to fill. Tough part was converting a brochure that was done in a word .doc file to a content block.
googled someone's comment about uploading .doc pages as a fast way to edit but have not been able to replicate it myself.
would be great if all the layout and content can be done in a word file and then just converted wysiwyg to the c5 blocks. How to do this?
please help?
Text pages were super easy to fill. Tough part was converting a brochure that was done in a word .doc file to a content block.
googled someone's comment about uploading .doc pages as a fast way to edit but have not been able to replicate it myself.
would be great if all the layout and content can be done in a word file and then just converted wysiwyg to the c5 blocks. How to do this?
please help?
Thanks for the suggestion. Would agree that would be a smart way to handle content updating.
But the thing is, the raw content files are all in Word doc format with charts, tables, pictures, etc.
Anyone know of a fast way to get these .doc files up?
But the thing is, the raw content files are all in Word doc format with charts, tables, pictures, etc.
Anyone know of a fast way to get these .doc files up?
If you want to keep the styling of the brochure I would try converting the .doc to an .swf or .pdf and displaying the .swf or .pdf either via scribd or the .swf block from the market place.
That's definitely your best bet - converting it to a pdf first would be best, but Scribd accepts .doc as well I believe. Definitely the quickest way too.
Otherwise, depending on the size of the document, save the charts and images separately (that would give you more flexibility in the future as well placing different bits of content elsewhere if you want)
Otherwise, depending on the size of the document, save the charts and images separately (that would give you more flexibility in the future as well placing different bits of content elsewhere if you want)
Really wouldn't recommend trying to convert your Word doc directly into HTML. It's often inaccurate and because Microsoft has it's own formatting rules, mixing these up by copy-pasting directly from Word will make your life a nightmare (it's the number on reason clients call me up).
I'd recommend setting up the layoutof your block areas in a page type, strip the formatting from your Word-document (paste it into a basic text-editor that has no formatting options) and then pasting that format-less content into your block areas.
Hope that helps,
osu