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Utility: Convert Rich Text to HTML and Vice Versa

Tested using IE6 and IE7 (FireFox is not recommended)

1. To see an example of how this web page works, click the and then the buttons above.

2. Click , click , and then copy/paste a portion of a web page into the text box above. Then click to see what the HTML looks like.

Clicking causes an HTML “keywords meta” command to be created. All non-bold text, all numbers, and all special characters are deleted. It also separates the bold words/phrases with commas, converts them to non-bold lower case, and puts the result within the meta command.

The text box above is a “rich text” text box, which means that the following are among Internet Explorer’s keyboard “shortcuts” which may be used:

1. “Enter” - New paragraph.

2. “<Shift>Enter” - New line.

3. “<Ctrl>B” - Toggle selected text between bold and nonbold.

4. “<Ctrl>C” - Copy selected text to the clipboard.

5. “<Ctrl>I” - Toggle selected text between italic and nonitalic.

6. “<Ctrl>K” - Make selected text into a link.

7. “<Ctrl>U” - Toggle selected text between underlined and not underlined.

8. “<Ctrl>V” - Replace selected text with the clipboard contents.

9. “<Ctrl>X” - Cut selected text after copying it to the clipboard.

NOTE: Unicode characters may be entered in three different formats. For example, the Greek letter Delta may be entered as “Δ,” as “[Delta],” or as “[#916].” In all three cases, it is translated into HTML as “&Delta;” and will be displayed on the web page as “Δ.” (See “Table of HTML Special Character Designations” - http://LLBest.com/HTMLSpecialCharacterTable.htm) Other special codes are as follows: [copy] = ©, [reg] = ®, [trade] = ™, [sup1] = ¹, [sup2] = ², [sup3] = ³, [dagger] = †, [Dagger] = ‡, … (3 periods) = … (&hellip;), and "…" = “….”

NOTE: This web page was created using Notepad. Except for the background image file the keyboard command JavaScript file and the font / color data JavaScript file, it is completely self contained, and the absence of these three files will not cause any problems. Please feel free to save it to your hard drive using “File/Save as….” Double-click on the newly created “LLBest - Utility - Convert Rich Text to HTML and Vice Versa” icon (“RichText2HTML” for Firefox), and make it one of your “Favorites.” It will work perfectly even when you are no longer connected to the Internet, or, heaven forbid, when this web page is no longer available!

Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Howard Best ()

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