Re: Converting word 97 documents

One of the most impressive parts of the demonstration of Dreamweaver3 in the 
release meeting was a conversion of a Word97 document.  The word conversion 
produced a file that was 970 lines long.   This same file was imported into 
Dreamweaver 3 and the "convert Word" command used.   Then the file was 
reduced to 230 lines - and looked the same. Just by combining redundant 
tags, deleting unnecessary stuff, and general tidying up.

It's very configurable, with filters for either Word97/98 or Word2000.  You 
can tell it what you want it to filter out  For example, there's a panel in 
the configuration of the command, to tell it to change (using the defaults 
here but you can put your own in) size 7 to <h1> and size 6 to <h1> and size 
5 to <h2> etc etc.   And you can select it to remove all word-specific html, 
clean up <css>, clean up font tags, remove word's meta tags, fix invalidly 
nested tags, apply source formatting which tidies up all the munged MS 
layout and produce a log when it's finished.

This is not quite what you're asking, but if this conversion doesnt do the 
trick  there's what they call HTML styles.   So you can select text and 
click on a style-sheet kind of panel, but instead of applying a style sheet, 
it adds font or other tags to convert the selected text to whatever style 
you have set up.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development,
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au


>From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Subject: Re: Converting word 97 documents
>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:29:48 -0500
>
> >>>I haven't tried Dreamweaver, so I don't know how accurate the
>conversion is.  I haven't come across anything myself that keeps the
>structure (headings, etc) intact.  I'd be interested to know if anyone's
>found anything that definitely does this!<<<
>
>Haven't actually tried the new DW function myself, but its heartening
>that it has a built-in menu option for this...
>
>D
>
>
>
>

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