• Can I force text/html to word wrap?

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    Not sure where to post this question so hope this is not too far off beam?

    I help a local charitable organisation to publish it’s monthly newsletter using Mail Chimp. The draft newsletter comes to me in the form of a Word document formatted as a 1 column table with different cells containing different items. The problem is that the data for the different cells comes from different sources and is simply pasted into the cells. Some of it is already word wrapped, some is not (but, in the word document, it appears wrapped because of the width of the table column.

    I convert the file to html in order to be able to import it to Mail Chimp. That’s when one can see the difference between the cells that are word wrapped and those that aren’t. So far I haven’t found a way to limit the width of the html so have been forced to manually insert a break in the lines that need it – a very tedious exercise!

    I just wondered if anyone knows of a way of forcing word wrapping in the cells that don’t already have it – either in Word or later in html? I thought I might be able to do it using Notepad++ or Sea Monkey, but so far have not found a way of doing it.

    Many thanks,

    V

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    • #1753385

      There are some suggestions on this page.

      If that doesn’t help maybe you could post a snippet in HTML that we can play with.

      cheers, Paul

    • #1759750

      a 1 column table

      Is the table necessary? Being 1-column, it sounds like one of those ‘We’ve always done it this way’ carry-overs from when the process was originally setup.

      Things would be much simpler for you if it was just simple paragraphs.

      Try saving the input doc as a TXT file, and bringing that back into a new Word doc based on the newsletter template. That will get rid of all formatting and artifacts due to different OS & WP programs/versions.

      If you need to preserve some formatting, then a macro might be able to tag it before the TXT step, and another macro to recover the formatting after the TXT step.

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