MS Word -> Lotus Notes - Copy/Paste table

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Hello all,

Our organization is upgrading from 6.5 to 8.5 in the near future.

I am having a problem in 6.5 keeping the formatting of a table while copying from MS Word to a Rich Text Field on a Lotus Notes form using LotusScript. The end users end up having to reformat the contents of the table by hand.

Essentially all we are doing is getting a handle on the Word document, copying it, (wordDoc.copy), moving to our Rich Text Field on our form (uidoc.gotofield(“myrtfield”)), and then pasting it into the uidoc (uidoc.paste).

I am wondering if there are any new features in 8.5 that may be of assistance in properly transferring the table formatting.

Alternatively, does anybody have any suggestions about how we could do a better job at maintaining table formatting in any other way.

I appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,

Riley

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Subject: Paste Special?

Try paste special as rich text, this gives you more to work with

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Subject: Paste Special in LotusScript

Hey Chris, thanks for the response.

That’s great, I am pretty new to Lotus Notes and haven’t heard of Paste Special before.

Do you know if there is a way that I can automate it with LotusScript or does the user always need to select it from the menu?

I will play with it and see what I can come up with.

Thanks

Riley

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Subject: In function language already

Well, you can use EditPasteSpecial in function language, not sure if it’s in LotusScript in r8.5 or not