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DNG 6.0.6 - Why is Word formatting not preserved yet Excel formatting is?

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Carol Watson
(735●2●3●20) Oct 28 '19, 1:22 p.m.

 I have a user who is selectively copying from Word and pasting into a DNG Module.  When pasting lines of text that do not have blank lines in Word, they do end up with blank lines between in DNG.  I tried importing from Word with the same result. If I import Excel, it preserves the font, the type size and the line spacing.  If I copy/paste from Excel, it preserves the size only (not the font or the line spacing).  


If you shift+enter you can avoid the blank line, but you have to do it in the DNG Artifact after you paste all of the text, otherwise attempts to indent portions of the text results in everything moving.

Are there any rules published on the expected behaviors for preserving format on Paste vs. Import?


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Carol

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Ian Wark
(797●1●35●53) Oct 29 '19, 1:23 a.m.
It's helpful you mention that you get the same result on import of the Word doc.

I found this guidance for import of Word and similar documents. In 6061 there is an option to choose how much to preserve the original format. I'm not sure if these options make a difference, but there is a "Optimize for editing" and "Maintain original style".


I can't find guidance on pasting content into modules from Word and other document types.

There may be an issue in your version of DNG around Word doc import. What version of DNG and iFix are you using? Does the blank space happen for any content in Word? Or just some documents?

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Ian Wark
Oct 29 '19, 1:42 a.m.
This doesn't answer your question about spaces, but looking some more, there is some related guidance about pasting into the rich text editor. Suggestions include to use shortcuts such as Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+C to copy, and Ctrl+V to paste, due to security constraints. Text should be valid XHTML format. There is also a Validate Content icon in the rich text editor.


Carol Watson
Oct 29 '19, 12:20 p.m.

 Thanks for the information Ian.  Your links explained the differences between Excel and CSV import, as well as why her spacing is not quite the same as how it appears in Word. We are currently on 6.0.6 iFix009, but will likely upgrade sometime next year.


Thanks for the assistance!

Carol

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