cannot import a MS word file into field

[Richard Gaskin]

Dan Shafer wrote:
> For one thing, Revolution knows very little of styled text fields, so  
> it is essentially impossible simply to put Word content into a Rev  field.

Rev supports a wide variety of the most popular text style attributes. 
While Rev doesn't read the proprietary Word format directly, it can 
import styled text as RTF.

> And it is impossible without a huge amount of work to mix images and  
> text in a field in Rev. That's what cards are for. You put text in  
> fields, images in their own object spaces.

The imageSrc property allows images to be displayed in fields.  There 
are merits to both a card-based and field-based presentation, depending 
on the needs of the app in question, but both are quite doable.

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