HELP! Transfering From MS Word To Notepad

[Dreamweaver]

I have hundreds of son lyrics which I have typed into MS
Word some time ago. I now need to transfer these to plain
text format without losing the existing format so they can
be uploaded to my web site. As they are now, each line of
lyrics has the corresponding chords placed on the line
directly above the word where the change takes place.
When I try to save these pages into any other format, or
copy & paste them, everything goes for a crap. Then the
chords do not line up with the word they are supposed to.
Does anyone know of a suitable way to change these over
without re-typing all my songs again. (Pragrams or
Otherwise)You would think Microsoft would have made these
2 programs compatable with each other.
Thanx A Bunch!!!!

[Tim Murray]

Plain text has no concept of formatting. Have you tried saving the Word
file as HTML?

[Lynn Killingbeck]

Two clear problems:

(1) "... transfer these to plain text format without losing the existing
format ..." is a nonsense phrase. "Plain text" is just that - plain,
without formatting.

(2) If you aligned the characters, on multiple lines, using spaces; and,
you did that with a variable-pitch font: then, I think you are in for a
world-full of work to get the effect you want as plain-text. I'll just
throw up my hands, and hope some expert can help you with a macro.

(2a) If, however, you did the original with a fixed-pitch font, then you
might have a slight chance of recovering by assuring that the target
processor (notepad - I have not used it, myself) also has a fixed-pitch
font. I quickly get deeper into "what-if" country here, than I care to
address.

(2b) If you did the alignment with instead of spaces, then you might be
able to recover by assuring the same tabs in both word processors.

Good luck! Try the save as HTML suggestion first. Otherwise, I think you
have a lot of work ahead of you.

Lynn Killingbeck

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

If, as I suspect, that these were created in Word using a proportional font,
such as Times New Roman or Arial, then about the only way you're going to be
able to do this is to publish onto the web page in HTML, specifying the
identical font & size as was used in Word. That's about the only way they're
going to line up. Even then, whoever looks at them will have to have their
browser set up to see the fonts as you intend, which doesn't always happen
(for example, I have "Ignore font sizes specified on web page" enabled so
that I can use MS IE's size control when I deem a web page's font too
small). It makes for some interesting songs, when the change to D7 occurs a
couple of words early or late <grin>. On the bright side, most musicians who
use such files are aware of the fact that things often don't line up and
experiment with fonts to achieve the desired results. Worst case scenario:
tell readers of your site the original font & point size so they can try to
recreate the correct alignment.

In the future, your son should either create the lyric/chord files in
Notepad directly (since it defaults to displaying in a fixed-pitch font), or
have him specify a fixed font (such as Courier New) in Word so that it can
be easily exported to the outside world.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Singer/Songwriter
mailto:he...@herbtyson.com http://www.herbtyson.com
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[Mark Baird]

Try saving the file as "Text with Layout". I would set the page to
landscape.

You best luck though may be HTML.

If all else fails and you are willing to shell out $150 purchase Adobe
Acroat and convert the documents to PDF which can be read by any browser as
long as Acrobar Reader is installed on the desktop. Acrobat Reader is free.

Mark Baird

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