The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.

Mal ,'Ariel'


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DCJensen - Jan 21, 2008 7:09:10 pm PST #4448 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Yesterday at work I solved the opposite of Typo Boy's issue. A store had problems in IE6, and IE7 made it work.

Plans are to uninstall IE7 at some point, but now that it's going to be mandatory again...


le nubian - Jan 22, 2008 3:48:34 am PST #4449 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I'm trying to remember what I did for my dissertation for the TOC fields. I remember that TOC was a pain in the ass - especially since I was using master documents.

TB, the only thing I can recommend is can you save the document (under a new name of course) as RTF and then get what you want from the TOC page?


Glamcookie - Jan 22, 2008 8:52:19 am PST #4450 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

iPhone/iTouch owners: I'm looking for a new case for my iPhone. I have the In Case rubber one and it's getting too stretched out - not sure I want to get another. Anyone have one they love?


omnis_audis - Jan 22, 2008 9:27:23 am PST #4451 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I like my marware case. I forget the model. Its leather holder on the belt with a magnetic clasp. Looks nice, is quiet to open, and has holes so you can plug in the headphones while its safetly in the pouch.


Jessica - Jan 22, 2008 9:28:58 am PST #4452 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Relatedly, does anyone have an iPod Touch case they love? Mine is all nekkid.


dcp - Jan 22, 2008 10:15:34 am PST #4453 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

You might have a look at EBcases. I bought a flipfront case (with a magnetic clasp) for my Sony CliƩ way back when, and still really like it. The CliƩ gets a lot more use and abuse than my cellphone ever has, and is still going strong (and looking good)....


Typo Boy - Jan 22, 2008 10:33:09 am PST #4454 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I wanted the TOC in a static web page as part of the project of putting the book on line. So I copied it an excel sheet, copied in back to a word document, and saved the word document as filtered html. That kept all the formatting except indentations, while keeping the page numbers right aligned. Then I pulled out the hard coded column widths from the html with quick search and replaces, tweaked the alignment in the page number column, and did a really sloppy html thing by hard coding spaces inside the first column to get indentations. I left blank columns to the right to plug in URLs. Not the most maintable method, but it gets what I want from MS table of contents to an HTML TOC in about a half an hours, so if I make more changes in the TOC than I want to hand mirror, I've a reasonable process for doing the conversion again. This is why people use content management systems where you can set it up one time and then send to Applications and HTML as you please. I suspect you could do what I want maintainably with Dreamweaver or Cold Fusion.

I'm not going get that elaborate. For all other chapters I'll just export them to unfiltered HTML, maybe running them through the clean program you folks recommened sometime ago. So on the site, people will have the entire book available as both Word and PDF, and individuals chapters as word, pdf, and html. The latter will be a bit sloppy, but you really don't want to read an entire book as HTML.


le nubian - Jan 22, 2008 11:31:40 am PST #4455 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

what a pain in the ass, TB.


Typo Boy - Jan 22, 2008 11:39:22 am PST #4456 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I'm open to suggestions. Am I right in thinking that Dreamweaver and other things of that ilk can let you generate HMTL from Office applications, while allowing a lot more control over the output than Office's native export methods?


Ginger - Jan 22, 2008 12:25:02 pm PST #4457 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The answer to your question, TB, is "it depends." If you send me a file, I'll let you know. Profile addy is good.