Talk:Word to wiki converter

Looks good. If folks can use MS Word to create pages and content, that should make things a whole lot easier. The wiki can be intimidating, but most folks are comfortable with MS Word.
 * Lady Geek: I changed the coding in the converter to match Wikimedia recommendations (which we have been following in our section formatting):

== Section headings ==

Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them.

=== Subsection === Using more "equals" (=) signs creates a subsection.

==== A smaller subsection ====

Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.

Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title. --Blbarnitz 08:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

What you see is an output of an MS Word file post-conversion.

I didn't know that you should start with 2 equals signs. Found that in the cheatsheet. Will double check that the MS Word macro follows this convention (that's where it came from). Also, to try Open Office export (Linux - Ubuntu 9.10). I'm debugging a macro that will handle tables that spans multiple columns. This version does not span columns.--LadyGeek 21:54, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Testing
I developed this using Office 2003. From what I could find, the VBA code has not changed since Office 2000 and is frozen at VBA 6. It should work for Office 2000 through Office 2007.

The table conversion is fairly robust. I made a number of mods to the original code, see the comments.--LadyGeek 03:23, 18 November 2009 (UTC)