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Talk to me about TOCs!
I am having trouble with applying a "toc" Table of Contents to a word doc that was cut n' pasted into pbwiki. I then re-formatted the headers (it is employee handbook) to match what was requred. No result. Can you help please? What do I need to do to make this work since it is such a cool solution.
I’m sad and confused!!!!
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Inappropriate?We've had a lot of trouble with MS Word, and it's something we're trying to fix. Chances are, if you look in the source code of your wiki page, you'll see a lot of excess HTML from MS Word, and I'll bet you a dollar that it's what's making the TOC not work.
You could run it through an HTML validator (try http://validator.w3.org/ ) to try and triage the code, but what you'll probably end up doing is having to reformat it entirely.
I suggest pasting the whole document into something like Notepad, where it strips out the formatting, and then pasting that back into the wiki page, and from there, changing all the headers you want in the TOC to the header size of choice. If it's your employee handbook, it's probably going to be a serious pain, because it's probably pretty long, but I don't know when we're going to make PBwiki and MS Office talk nicely to each other.
You could try formatting strippers online to just get out all the MS Word tags (I found this one at the top of a google search for "formatting strippers"), but I'm not qualified or experienced enough to attest to the efficiency and quality of these programs. Also, I am a big proponent of hand coding, so that's my bias :)
If you find something that works, please add it to this thread so that others can use it too.
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Inappropriate?You might also try pasting into WordPad, which retains some formatting. -
Inappropriate?I just don't know for sure if it retains the header formatting as actual header tags, or as font size, which won't work with the TOC.
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Inappropriate?If you have a google account, start using google docs as a format stripper. Paste the content from word to google docs and then copy and paste from google docs into pbwiki. This html is a lot more compatible if you do this. I know it is a pain in the a*se workaround but until pbwiki improve desktop integration (and we have been waiting a long time for this, well I have anyway) then it is the best option. Notepad will keep bugger all of your formatting, Wordpad won't render tables. Best option Google docs workaround in my opinion
I’m hoping pbwiki sort out this soon!
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Inappropriate?Update on pasting Word -> PBwiki 2.0:
Our newest engineer has been working on fixing this, and I saw a demo today that looked fantastic. They have to do some more bug testing on it before it's going to be released, and they won't tell me when it is, so I don't know :)
It strips out a lot of formatting that makes Word content behave oddly (read "extremely annoyingly"), and is probably going to look pretty aggressive from the users' standpoint (takes out lots of fonts and cosmetic attributes), but links should work (if you wrote them correctly in the first place), and I just asked about keeping header tags in and they're going to make sure that gets added before it's released. So yeah, TOC should still work, but I'll make sure they test that specifically.
Until this is formally announced, I'm still going to recommend using another formatting stripper, or GoogleDocs (ty, Seanmac).
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Inappropriate?Thank you everyone for your response. Will give it a shot and reply back! -
Inappropriate?Hey! If you have a 2.0 wiki, check out the next page you edit - up next to the "Insert Plugin" button is a icon that looks like an eraser. Give it a whirl, and let me know what you think.
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