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[TheBestPlayersPlay]

Ok Riff ...there's no way to actually embed or copy/paste a word/excel or any document like that from said program, it's virtually impossible.

That being said, there is a workaround. I don't know how familiar you are with Google Docs, but it's awesome and essentially the same as the programs you are talking about.

Also, if you don't want to input your data into Google Docs directly, you can always take and excel spreadsheet, or word doc etc. and import it into G Docs very easily, and then use the following tools that I just added to post to the forums:


Embed Various Google Docs

Google Docs is a free service by Google. Google Docs are a professional collection of "Office" applications like a Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation Designer, and Drawing tool. Google Docs is a serious alternative to the very expensive Microsoft Office. Documents are stored online, can be shared among users, and in the case of this BB Code they can be embedded in other web pages.

There are several BB Codes in this collection, Google Doc (Document), Google Spreadsheet and Google Presentation. Google Drawings can be embedded using the standard [img] tags but I will give an example here anyway.

When working on any Google Document in the top right of the window will be a "Share" button with drop-down arrow. Click on this arrow and choose "Publish to Web" or "Publish / Embed" and you will be given code to link to and/or embed the document. You will be given a URL such as:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub...FgnJEsT1YvYsuc

What you need is the document ID which is the long string of characters after "id=" or "key=" and before the ampersand (&) if present, in this case your id is:
1bhtK-AhiXqfWK5bGJcULvEO3zMahcFgnJEsT1YvYsuc

In all cases you put the ID between the appropriate tag for the type of document. (without the spaces, I am using them only for demo)

Google Document (Word Processor Document)

[ gd ]1bhtK-AhiXqfWK5bGJcULvEO3zMahcFgnJEsT1YvYsuc[ /gd ] =

Google Spreadsheet
[ gs ] 0AmOHO6Cm8vvAdFR2b0dMMnVwMUE0MlpXYnowWnowWWc [ /gs ] =

Google Presentation

[ gp ]dcjktv94_1fcpptwqc[ /gp ] =

Google Drawing
No special BB Code is needed to embed a drawing because it's rendered as any other image. Just put the URL given between IMG tags...

[ IMG ]https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1C1arwoUzUyzxnzk9yD7ysx6vyMfcDuDXXzQTqnngh2 c&w=640&h=480[ /IMG ] =



Google Form

[ gf ]dDNJRFdVaXRxM2FTVXpnQlVlMHBZVnc6MQ[ /gf ] =

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[TheBestPlayersPlay]

I also added buttons for these BBCodes if you use advanced reply rather than quick reply.

[SoCalBrownsFan]

You the man Gabe...great job as usual.

[Riffer X]

Thanks man, I will try it soon.