LyX ⇒ export lyx-files to MS Word

[katbeasty]

Hi there,
I have to use a Windows at uni - no one works with Lyx here and I have to find a way to get the export into Word working because my tutors don't want to change...

Ok, I click on >EXPORT >HTML (MS Word)

The error message is: An error occured whilst running htlatex "filename.tex" 'html,word' 'symbol/!'

There was a topic about the same problem with Open office, but no one knew how to fix it. Does it work at all??

Thanks
Katja

[DaveFromOz]

I tried the same thing, using LyX 1.5.2 on Win XP SP2, using MikTeX 2.7.
The first time I tried it, it installed htlatex (really tex4ht) from my local MikTeX repository. This may not be possible for an ordinary user at uni. to do, you may have to talk to your IT people.
To see if htlatex(=tex4ht) is installed, open up a command line window and type the command htlatex and press return. The results will tell you if it is installed. If not, see your IT people.
Once it had installed, I found that export to HTML(WORD) didn't work, but the generic HTML export did. MS Word 2003 then opened that properly and I was able to save the document as a native MS Word document.