Microsoft Word Documents Left Justified on Web Pages

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Microsoft Word Documents Left Justified on Web Pages

I have a church web site created with iWeb 08. I've been taking sermon outlines from Microsoft Word, copying the text, and pasting it in iWeb. This has been working fine in the past. The Word formatting copies over fine and the indents show up correctly in iWeb and on the web pages being viewed with Safari, Firefox, or IE in Windows.

Within the last month, something has happened. All the sermons are now left justified on the church website, when viewed with any of the browsers. It still looks okay in iWeb 08 though. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, were you able to correct it?

PowerMac G4 933Mhz Quicksilver, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 768MB RAM, GeForce4 MX 64MB, Sony DVD Burner

Posted on Jul 2, 2008 9:26 AM

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Answer 1

Wyodor

Level 6

19,930 points

Jul 2, 2008 9:38 AM in response to Brian Williams 8-)

A webpage is not a Word document.

Don't rely on the formatting of any document you paste in a webpage. iWeb or other.

Get rid of the formatting in the document first and then copy the clean, plain text in a text box.

There you do the formatting.

BTW, iWeb is not a good place to judge a webpage. Use a browser.

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Answer 2

Jul 6, 2008 9:26 PM in response to Wyodor

That wasn't helpful at all. Did you read my post? It worked before. The formatting from Word showed up in iWeb and then on the website viewed with Safari, Firefox, and IE. Now it is not working. Something changed on the server. It still looks the same in iWeb but is not working on the actual site. Even the pages that had correct indentation before now are all left justified.

This isn't a basic HTML editor, iWeb can handle just about any document and formatting. I've been amazed at what it can handle. I'm just surprised that it is having problems now.

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Answer 3

Ethmoid

Level 6

11,482 points

Jul 7, 2008 12:41 AM in response to Brian Williams 8-)

You are correct in that iWeb is not a basic HTML editor. In fact, iWeb is NOT and HTML editor at all, as you would find if your tried to import anything to it. iWeb does not create html pages until published.

If I were you, I would make your Word document into a pdf document instead and then copy and paste it into iWeb.

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Answer 4

Jul 30, 2008 11:16 AM in response to Ethmoid

I shouldn't have to do anything to my documents because, like I said, it worked before. I'm not sure if something changed on the domain side or an update to the application has caused this problem. I could paste a Word document directly into iWeb and it would publish it just as it was in Word. Now it is left justifying everything.

I just downloaded the 2.0.3 version of iWeb but I'm having access problems to my domain now so I haven't been able to test it to see if it works. Once I can get back to publishing back to the site, I'll test it out.

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Answer 5

Old Toad

Level 10

207,361 points

Jul 30, 2008 11:47 AM in response to Brian Williams 8-)

A lot has changed with Apple's hosting servers and software in the last couple of weeks due to the MobileMe changeover and it's not surprising that some things don't work as they once did. It takes little effort to click on the text box in the iWeb page and select the justification you need.

Another way to add the Word page is to take a screenshot of it and add it as an image file. That way all browsers and platforms will see it exactly the same, particularly if you're using a non web safe font.

Web Safe Fonts
Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents
Safe web fonts

OT

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Answer 6

Sep 3, 2009 8:53 AM in response to Brian Williams 8-)

I ended up opening my Word documents in Pages and then pasting them from Pages to iWeb. This kept all the formatting intact. I've also just purchased a Mac Mini with iLife '09 and upgraded to Office 2008, so I need to try using Word again and paste directly into the newest version of iWeb.

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