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Alan Bell: To get the data into the site the documents were opened in OpenOffice.org Writer, then copied to Calc, tidied up manually (merged cells are evil) then imported to Lotus Notes 8 via the built in Symphony spreadsheet (I had been working on some code to import Calc into Notes so this was easy) exported to XML then imported to WordPress. The import file was just over 2Mb in size. ... The main difficulty in importing the data was smartquotes and em dashes that Word had autocorrected.

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