On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Kevin Comerford wrote:
> The situation you described regarding the deletion of <META> tag
> elements in Word is a known problem. The following article from the MS
> Knowledgebase (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/default.asp), Article #:
> Q129609, may be of some help to you.
Hmm, I don't think this is quite the same problem...
> Comments added to the Summary Info dialog box are truncated or replaced
> by HTML document HEAD elements--specifically ISINDEX, BASE, NextID and
> META information--when you convert your document to HTML. Internet
> Assistant does not currently support the Link attribute.
...unless I'm mis-reading this badly the Knowledge Base summary seems to
be saying that comments you add to the MS-Word summary info will be
truncated or replace _BY_ things like META elements in the HTML document.
What Arthur reported (and I've heard others mention) is that _existing_
META elements in the HTML document are trashed by the Microsoft
application and replaced by a pointless semi-advert META element. This
sounds like a very different problem to me. Luckily I use Emacs so I'm
Alright Jack(tm)... :-)
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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