Contribute inserts unwanted font tags

[DonSmith]

I was told in a demo of the WPS that we can import from MS Word without any of
the fonts coming over, so I know this can be done. Can anyone from Team
Macromedia comment? This was one of the top 3 selling points from our director
which is causing us to replace our current system. Don

[UMDchristian]

Hi all. This is my issue too. Any other solutions found yet?

My bosses are extremely tech-cranky, and they just assume send me Word
Documents to convert/recreate and publish all the time (taking up a lot of my
day), if the Contribute/MS Word integration isn't simple and smooth, and works
without mistakes. It's that easy for these decision-makers to throw away
Contribute. I hope they don't, so I'm looking for any more solutions found.
Thanks, C

[GlazerGallery]

You don't say what version of Contribute you're using, but if it's Contribute
2, upgrade to 3 ASAP and I think you will find that many problems disappear.
This conversation for the most part took place in early 2005, and I don't
remember when we switched over to v. 2. I have also found that as we have
converted more pages over to CSS (at least for implementation of controlling
text styles; we still use a lot of tables for positioning and layout, and we
don't really use layers yet) we have far fewer problems with messy code when we
copy and paste text into Contribute pages from Word documents. Whether you are
creating new pages based on old ones, or updating text on existing pages, you
want those pages to be clean, so you might have to go in with Dreamweaver or a
code editor to clean them up first, before you let your co-workers edit them in
Contribute.

[UMDchristian]

using contribute 3. sorry about that.

what about, as an administrator, forcing user's Contribute to generate Xhtml
rather than html ?

for instance, I'm noticing a lot of <br> tags being generated. I would love to
get it to output <br /> instead. and more xhtml stuff in general.

[Mpolha]

We just upgraded about thirty users from C2 to C4, and we are getting the messy
extra tags when pasting from Word AND when pasting from Notepad as simple text
(albeit, fewer extraneous tags from Noepad). With C2, even though you had to
reformat all the text, at least it started out clean. I have a few users who
pasting from Word is the only realistic option.

Has anyone found a solution to this - all the junk tags are going to make
updating pages via CSS very difficult (impossible?).

Drowning in tags in the Pacific NW monsoons,
Mark

[GlazerGallery]

Mark,

We've found that if the font specs on the page being modified or copied in
Contribute are all in CSS (these pages are linked to an external CSS
stylesheet), Contribute doesn't seem to put those unwanted font tags in. We
still do use tables for some of the image layouts on these pages, but the
captions are all enclosed by <p class="caption"> tags ("caption" being a CSS
class we've defined in our stylesheet) and we've put other text within <div
class> and <div id> tags. This has been true with Contribute 3 and 4. I just
make sure when people here use Contribute to create a new page, they base it on
one that's already been converted to CSS.

I don't know why this has seemed to work, but it does. FYI the machines they
are using all run Windows XP Pro.

Also check the administration preferences; I seem to remember a box you can
check about allowing or not allowing inline styles, though I could be wrong
about that.

--Helen