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Utility: Convert Rich Text to HTML and Vice Versa

Tested using IE6, IE7, FireFox 3, Safari 4 and Opera 9 (FireFox 3 works best)

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

To turn the above text box contents into a web page:

1. Click .

2. Click . (optional)

3. If you are using Internet Explorer, click , click , set language to Unicode (UTF-8) and click Save.

4. If you are not using Internet Explorer, use a text editor such as Notepad2. For Notepad2, first click File / Encoding / UTF-8 with Signature. Now you are ready to copy/paste the contents of the text box above into Notepad2 and to save it to your hard drive using .htm or .html as the file name extension.

Try copy/pasting a portion of a web page into the text box above. Then click to see what the HTML looks like.

The text box above is a “rich formatting” 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: Before clicking , Unicode characters may be entered in 2 different ways. For example, the Greek letter Delta (Δ) may be entered as “[Delta],” or as “[#916].” Certain fractions may be entered in 3 different ways. For example, ¾ may be entered as “3/4,” as “[frac34],” or as “[#190].” (See “Table of HTML Special Character Designations” - http://llbest.com/HTMLSpecialCharacterTable.htm) Examples of a few of the many other special codes are as follows: ... (3 periods) = …, "..." = “…”, '...' = ‘…’, [copy] = ©, [reg] = ®, [trade] = ™, [sup1] = ¹, [sup2] = ², [sup3] = ³, [dagger] = †, and [Dagger] = ‡.

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 4 files will not cause any problems. Please feel free to save it to your desktop using File/Save as…. Double-click on the newly created LLBest - Utility - Convert Rich Text to HTML and Vice Versa icon (VedaBaseTextToEmail 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 Charles Best ()

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