First, thanks very much to Remo Del Bello for taking this on. (Remo, look for a personal post from me shortly). Remo's results made me realize an error on my part in setting this up and one caution as well:
The set up for Doc 3 should have been written as follows: Doc 3: Body Text Style (modified to have NO Space After) with an extra return between paragraphs. And the caution is this: Don't change the name of Normal style in any way; by doing so you turn it into a Custom style and that changes the results of the experiment. So anyone else who decides to do this, please modify the procedures below accordingly. Thanks! Beth On 6/16/03 11:36 PM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of us who are involved with the Entourage Help Page > (<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>) have recently revisited the subject of > extra carriage returns when copying and pasting from Word into Entourage. > We've found that our FAQ on this subject > (<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/faqs.html#Anchor-63>) is at least > partially wrong; unfortunately we're having trouble figuring out exactly > what is right! > > If any of you out there � using OS 10.2.6/Office 10.1.2 � have an extra 20 > minutes to spare, we could really use some help trying to reproduce the > results we've gotten so far. Here's the procedure to follow: > > Start by creating four identical documents in Word X as follows: Normal > template; 12 point font; type a two-line paragraph, copy it, and paste it > four times below that first paragraph. Here are the variables: > > Doc 1: Normal Style with an extra return between paragraphs (1 blank line) > Doc 2: Normal Style, with 12 pt "Space After" (no extra return) > Doc 3: Body Text Style with an extra return between paragraphs > Doc 4: Body Text Style, 12 pt "Space After" (you'll have to modify the > style since it has a 6 pt Space After by default) (no extra return) > > Now, try the following: > > 1) Copy the text in Doc 1 (Normal, extra return) and paste it into a plain > text message in Entourage X. > > 2) Copy the text in Doc 1 (Normal, extra return) and paste it into an HTML > message in Entourage X. > > 3) Doc 2 (Normal, space after) to plain text. > > 4) Doc 2 (Normal, space after) to HTML. > > 5) Doc 3 (Body Text, extra return) to plain text. > > 6) Doc 3 (Body Text, extra return) to HTML. > > 7) Doc 4 (Body Text, space after) to plain text. > > 8) Doc 4 (Body Text, space after) to HTML. > > For anyone who takes this on, thank you VERY much. So as not to clog up the > list with myriad responses :-), feel free to report your results directly to > me (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). I'll post back here with the final > results. We need to know how many spaces � if any � ended up between > paragraphs in each of the 8 Entourage messages. > > Cheers, -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
