Hi Randall, I do it a lot, no problem
- Create the document in Word as you would like it to be - Put in clearly visible placeholders for your data, I use AAAA, BBBB, CCC and so on - Do a Save As... RTF format (some Word versions offer 2 variants, choose the MS RTF or something, it's not standard (of course), but complete in terms of Word specifics). - Open the RTF document in Textpad or other ascii editor - Replace the placeholders with familiar [% %] tags, plus loop and conditional tags of course - If possible avoid tables, use tabs instead. - Avoid editing the template in Word! Word will ruin your carefully entered tags. - The only way allowed to add tags in Word is with Edit > Paste Special > Paste As Text. But stay with the ascii editor for starters - Wear goggles and a helmet, as there's a lot of RTF to weed through - You may want to rename the extension into .doc again (at the file level), the doc will remain in RTF format but end users are less likely to faint Use styles and define the default style to your liking (in contrast to: apply font and style changes repeatedly on multiple paragraphs). Working this way will give you document lighter on RTF tags. cheers ~henq > -----Original Message----- > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:26:27 -0800 (PST) > From: Randall Marbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: TT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Templates] Using TT to create word docs. > > Hi All > > I have a new job that requires me to to take data out > of a database, process it and then put the results on > the web and also into a Microsoft word document. > .. > > What would be the best approach to this problem? > _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
