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Post by aristana » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:13 pm

How can I convert from rich text format to HTML or BBCode? I have a document in Microsoft WordPad that I need to convert to HTML or BBCode or something to prevent all the text formatting from being lost when posted on a forum. Is there any way to do this?
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Re: BBcode

Post by Dan Rowden » Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:56 pm

The only way I know to do that is to either use Notepad (which may cause you to lose some fomatting anyway) or in a plain text format email (i.e. C&P the text into one of those then into the forum post). You cannot maintain formatting such as italics. You'll have to do anything like that manually once the text is posted - afaik.

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Re: BBcode

Post by guest_of_logic » Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:05 am

A bit of Googling turned up BBComposer, a toolbar for Mozilla Firefox that supports WYSIWYG editing including generation of BBCode tags. It looks like you might be able to copy-n-paste the contents of Wordpad into the BBComposer window. I haven't used it myself, but it might work for you. Hope you use Firefox. :-)

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Re: BBcode

Post by guest_of_logic » Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:40 am

S/he edited in a few spam links after the fact. Cunning. To think that we wasted our time trying to help out a spammer... ugh.

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Re: BBcode

Post by Dan Rowden » Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:20 pm

Spammers are crafty little arseholes. Fortunately, I have THE POWER!!!! :)

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