Changing the file extension from "html" to "doc" didn't work, but it got me thinking...if I delete the first couple of xml tags in the file, maybe Word will try to open it as a regular document. It worked! (I then smacked my forehead and said "doh! I should have thought of that before.") The document now looks like an html document opened in Word. The only weirdness is that the top-level headings have this series of characters at the beginning of the line 3 , but that's pretty easy to remove. Thanks to both Michael and Wolfgang for their help. Just out of curiousity, is anybody working on an easier way to move between lyx and MS-Word? As much as I like and am impressed with lyx, there's no way I could use it for a document that would be co-written with others, or that would be edited by others. Easier movement between lyx and Word might greatly expand the potential lyx user base. I realize I must not be the first person to bring this up, but I thought I'd mention it now, given that I just tried to work through this very problem. Thanks again, Joel
_____ From: Michael Joyner [mailto:mjoy...@vbservices.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 11:23 PM To: Joel Schwartz Cc: engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx freezes during "HTML (MS WORD)" export On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Joel Schwartz <j...@joelschwartz.com> wrote: ... The html file looked pretty good in a Firefox browser window. However, when I opened it in MS-Word, Word decided it was an xml file and the file was filled with all sorts of tags at the begining and end of each line of text. I can't figure out what to do with it to turn it into a normal Word document (I don't know how to process xml). Try renaming it with '.doc' as the extension to try and trick word into properly importing it... or try openoffice followed up by save as word doc. --- * Learn to speak Cherokee: http://www.cherokeelessons.com/ * Cherokee Language Help BBS/Chat: http://www.cherokeelessons.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=6 * Cherokee Lessons PDF made with: http://www.lyx.org/
