Tip #1
Copying and pasting text from word processors
If you have existing text in other applications, such as Word or WordPerfect documents, you can copy the text in your word processing document, and then use Edit, Paste in Dreamweaver to paste the text into a document in Dreamweaver. In Dreamweaver MX or MX 2004 , the same type of paragraph structure in your original document should be found in the "pasted" text. That is, if you have "paragraphs" in your word processor document, the paragraph structure is (somewhat) maintained (this depends on the version of the word processor you are using). But in general, the text comes in with paragraph coding and the line break coding.
What other formatting is transferred depends on the version of Dreamweaver you are using. For example, if you cut and paste into Dreamweaver MX, text that was right justified or centered in the word processing document will not keep this alignment (it becomes left aligned), but the alignment is maintained when pasted into a Dreamweaver MX 2004 document. The 2004 release will also maintain italic or bold formatting in text, while the MX release won't. Neither release of Dreamweaver maintains references to font type or font sizes used in the word processing document.
If your word processing document has information in tables, the text will "come over" but the table structure will not if you are using the MX release, but the table structure (columns and rows) is maintained when the table is copied into the 2004 release.
Images in your word processor document will not be brought over through copy and paste. This is primarily because the graphic formats supported in word processors are not supported in web documents. Most word processor documents would probably be using .TIFF, .PCX or .EPS formats for graphic images, and these images would have to be converted to either JPEG or GIF images for the web. Web images are discussed in Lesson 4.
Don't expect more complicated document structures in your word processing document to transfer over, such as text in columns. The text will copy over, but not the column structure.
The point here is that you might save yourself some time, if you have existing text in a word processing document, by copying and pasting text into Dreamweaver.
These tips
are created as part of a class on Dreamweaver Basics.
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