RE: Saving as HTML in Word -- why does Word do this?

["Downing, David" <david -dot- downing -at- fiserv -dot- com>]

Oooh, I hate it when Windows thinks it knows what I want better than I
do.

David Downing
Senior Technical Writer
Credit Union Solutions
Fiserv
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:53 PM
To: Downing, David; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com;
WORD-PC -at- LISTSERV -dot- LIV -dot- AC -dot- UK
Subject: RE: Saving as HTML in Word -- why does Word do this?


 I can't tell you about the creation part, in Word, but the other part
when you delete?... That's not Word. That's Windows being...........
Er........... Helpful, and keeping the related files together as a
group.  Even unto death.

There's a setting that you can switch off. I have to keep finding it
each time I get a new Windows computer.

 - Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> techwr-l-bounces+kevin -dot- mclauchlan=safenet-inc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr
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inc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Downing, David
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:09 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com; WORD-PC -at- LISTSERV -dot- LIV -dot- AC -dot- UK
> Subject: Saving as HTML in Word -- why does Word do this?
> 
> I realize that asking for a logical rationale for anything 
> Word does is probably asking too much, but nevertheless, here goes.
> 
> When I need to extract the graphics from a Word document as 
> separate graphics files, I save the Word document as HTML. 
> When I do this, two things happen that puzzle me. 
> 
> First, sometimes only one copy of each graphic as saved, and 
> all the graphics are saved as GIF files, but sometimes, two 
> files are saves for each graphic, one in the PNG format and 
> one in the JPG format. Why does it happen one way sometimes, 
> and the other way at other times?
> 
> Second, when I drag the resulting HTML file into the recycle 
> bin. The accompanying folder goes in there with it. (I'd like 
> to be able to immediately throw the HTML file away, because 
> that's not what I need, but for this reason, I can't do that 
> until I've dealt with all the graphics by moving them 
> elsewhere.) The first couple times this happened, I assumed I 
> must have accidentally grabbed the accompanying file as well 
> and dragged them both into the recycle bin, but I eventually 
> realized this wasn't the case. Why does the accompanying 
> folder get dragged in along with the HTML file?
> 
> David Downing
> Senior Technical Writer
> Credit Union Solutions
> Fiserv
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