Okay, please don't yell at me (ducking, with hands over head). I know it's a terrible, awful, horrible thing to copy/paste from Word (Excel, etc.).
The students in my college-level computer literacy course create a resume in Word that uses a table to format the content. The text is formatting using both character and paragraph styles.
They also learn the very basic basics of creating a web site (a small part of one word processing lab). The easiest way for them to get the main content of their resume into a NOF web site is to select the entire table in Word, copy it, and paste it into NOF. Comes in, looks great.
But... I know that's not the proper way to do things and I would like to show them how to use css to do both the character- and paragraph-level formatting.
My preference would be a way to paste the table into NOF and remove the two styles (but not any italics) or substitute a css definition for the styles.
What I would prefer not to do is to create a blank table in NOF and copy/paste unformatted cell by cell. Although the table is usually just 10 or 12 cells, even that little copying/pasting will turn them off forever, I'm afraid.
Is there a way to copy/paste the table then select all the text in the table and clear the formatting so that the table is maintained? In my experimentation (with NOF 11), seems the only way to keep the table is to either regular paste or paste RTF, but I wasn't able to select the text in the table and clear the text formatting, I had to select text in each cell individually.
What's the best way to accomplish this task? Should not be complicated or difficult because most of these students have never done any web site work.
Thanks,
liz
P.S. I've waded through the forums as best I could to see if I could gain any insight, I've read tutorials and the user manuals. I want to do this the correct way, as long as it's not too complex.
Added: Pasting from Word worked fine in NOF 11. Makes NOF 12 barf (ungraceful exit, etc.)
Paste special as HTML works. Now I have to figure out why my font change to the Site TextObject isn't working, although my new Site styles are working fine.