HTML Class to Word Styles

Journeyman · #1 08-16-2023, 07:44 PM

Hi all,

Not so sure this belongs here, but some cluey person might have an answer.

I have an HTML file that is being imported into MS Word. e.g.

Code:

Set oDoc = oApp.documents.add
oDoc.Range.InsertFile = "C:MyPath\MyFile.htm"

This results in a word document being produced with the HTM output.

On that import, any text recognised as a Header (e.g. 'H1') is automatically applied to the Heading 1 style. Awesome... except...

...any other text is converted into the Normal style. So I tried to be clever and set the class of the HTML tag. e.g.

Code:

<p style='Font-Family:Tahoma,Geneva, sans-serif' Class='Body Text">My Paragraph</p>

So the document is imported into word.... but a new style called 'body' (lowercase) is applied to the text. It seems to omit the full 'Body Text' class that I aimed for.

So... how might I address this problem?

Guessed · #2 08-17-2023, 05:24 PM

I had a fiddle with this and had some clues after exporting a Word doc in HTML format and looking at that output. As a result I found that you can import styles like this

Code:

<p Class=MsoBodyText>Body Text Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</p>
<p Class=MsoList>List Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</p>
<p Class=MsoListNumber>List Number Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</p>
<p Class=MsoHeading1>Heading 1 Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</p>
<p Class=MsoTitle>Heading 2 Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</p>

It looks like there are built-in MsoXXX names that map to built-in styles and you can also use 'invalid' names to have the content styled with a custom style (or style alias).
For instance most of these above worked but the p Class=MsoHeading1 created a new style called msoheading1. This is not the end of the world since I should have used H1 instead of p anyway.

Journeyman · #3 08-17-2023, 06:42 PM

Oh this is magic. Thanks Andrew.

Much appreciated.

Guessed · #4 08-17-2023, 08:06 PM

Note that you can also make use of style aliases to 'force' a tagged paragraph into a specific style when you don't know its built-in MsoXXX title

For instance, if I wanted to make any of these map to a specific style in Word then I could firstly add them as stylename aliases in Word and then import the html.
In the case of the Heading 1 style in Word, change the stylename in your Word doc to "Heading 1,random,fubar" which means you can then import the following html lines which all become Heading 1 in the document.

Code:

<p Class=random>Heading 1 Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</p>
<p Class=fubar>Heading 1 Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</p>
<h1>Heading 1 Vestibulum ut diam magna. Maecenas ut interdum ante, vel volutpat nibh</h1>

Journeyman · #5 08-17-2023, 09:03 PM

Okay, awesome. This is great followup information.

I am in fact writing from an Access webbrowser control to word. This functionality is fine - VBA.

It happens that after I tested how this works (thanks to your response) I discovered that I would have to assign the classes to each paragraph in the html before importing - which I didn't think about until after the fact.

My guess is that I will have to do some string manipulation to find and replace <p> tags with <P Class="msoBodyText">Ect...</p>". although I think there's a way to change attributes... but not yet sure where this rabbit hole will go.

In any case, this info you've given is very valuable, and much appreciated. Thanks tons!

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