14th May 2002
I couldn't figure out what the Cluetrain engineer from HYPERORG.COM (David Weinberger) was so happy about until I found a way to do it in my version of Microsoft Word (2000). "I'm so excited! I just discovered that the Microsoft Script Editor lets me edit Word documents! E.g., if you put borders around paragraphs in Word and then try to insert paragraphs between them, Word does everything except what you want it to do. It'll merge 'em, remove 'em, but not let you insert an extra paragraph. So, I saved the DOC as HTML and did a 'View Source' in Word. After installing the Script Editor, I got an editable HTML view, but I also discovered that it was showing me an HTML view of the DOC file. Edit [your stuff] in the Script Editor, save the document, and it updates the DOC file. At long last!" Now, I believe he was using Word 2002 (the one that comes with Office XP). Click Tools | Macro | Microsoft Script Editor. I'm still looking for the exact location of this program. This thing is truly awesome; you can easily drag and drop HTML elements into the Source view! Why don't other HTML editors work this way?