[Hidden-tech] MS Word to HTML Code

[Claudia Gere]

Thank you everyone for weighing in on this issue. The Word option to save
the file as a Web page produces an HTML document, but as we've heard, it is
very sloppy (very difficult to edit) and also retains ancillary document
info. If you do use the function in Word, be sure to check the document
properties to make sure there is nothing sensitive in there and also select
the second option, save as Web Page Filtered. That takes out some of the
unnecessary coding.

There are a few sites that offer free conversion tools: word2cleanhtml.com
and textfixter.com but both sites botched my formatting, and the hyperlinks
for the table of contents didn't convert correctly. (Word also changes some
of my formatting, but not as drastically.)

So I'll try to clean it up in Dreamweaver if I can get the document into the
application easily enough. If that doesn't' work, I'll stick with Word
conversion until I can find something better.

Thank you! Claudia

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Heller [mailto:heller at deepsoft.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:15 AM
To: Claudia Gere
Cc: 'Hidden-Tech Discussion'; Robert Heller
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] MS Word to HTML Code

At Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:44 -0500 "Claudia Gere"
<Claudia at ClaudiaGereCo.com> wrote:

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> I'm looking for the easiest/cleanest way to turn a Microsoft Word document
> (a 300-page book, text with simple formatting, no photos) into HTML code.
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MS-Word itself will do this (although the HTML generated by MS-Word is
pretty horrible, as is the HTML generated by OO).  Going from a WYSIWYG
Word Processor document to HTML code, given that HTML, by definitation,
is 'anti-'WYSIWYG is interesting at best and often will be pretty at
worst. 

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