Re: any idea how to convert org file to MS WORD an retain text structure?

From: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: any idea how to convert org file to MS WORD an retain text structure?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:16:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100615151632.GP32673@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin0nYghO_RVic7sYBvIvBsuOWohvZAFDSwSa6LI@mail.gmail.com>

I routinely have to do this. My steps are:

 - Export org to html
 - Switch to the html export buffer (filename.html)
 - Delete the xml lines at the top until the first line is the <html> tag
 - Save the html
 - Open the html in Word

It opens fine, and preserves image links, tables, formats, etc. This
saves time. I know there was a recent ML post I made on the same
topic, and there was a reply on automation which I haven't tried yet.

Typically what's happening for me is I write a technical document in
Org, and I give it to a tech writer who uses Word to apply company
templates. They have less work to do because the Org formatting is
preserved.

Babel and image links are a boon here!

Thanks.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:31:02PM +0530, Puneeth Chaganti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Rainer Stengele
> <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I love to edit documents in Org.
> > Unfortunately I have to finally deliver text in MS Word.
> >
> > Any idea how to best export/convert my org file to Word?
> >
> > I tried HTML export and then imported the html in Word but
> > I end up in an unusable xml style document which word wants an stylesheet for which I do not have.
> 
> I don't have MS Word around, so I can't be sure. But, stripping off
> the the xml header [ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> ] and
> then opening it in OpenOffice works fine for me. I tested with a
> simple document, with a couple of sections and sub-sections and some
> unnumbered lists.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Puneeth
> 
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