RE: MS Word Generated HTML Code

I have recently converted to Office 2000 and found this same terrible new
development.  What I do is use Dreamweaver to clean Office 2000 (Word)
HTML, which seems to work...sort of...

Then I use dreamweavers "File -> Convert -> Convert for HTML 3.0 Compatible
Browsers" feature.

That will strip out most of the crappy and unreadable CSS that word generates.
and switch it to regular HTML...  I can then go back and apply my style
sheet if I so desire..

anyhow, it seems to help on my files to this...and it is for use on my
INTRANET, so I leave it at the best I can make it in a reasonable amount of
time.  It ain't for the public so it doesnt have to be perfect, it just has
to be quick...or so seems to be the consensus here.

-Michelle


At 01:08 PM 5/25/00 -0400, Villano, Paul wrote:
>I have been struggling with this same problem for the last few days.  (In
>fact, I thought I posted a message on this same subject to this list.)
>Anyway, neither the Dreamweaver 3 fix nor the Word Compact HTML fix worked
>for me.  
>
>PowerPoint 97 had a fairly useful "Save as HTML" file (I never used the Word
>version).  But the Office 2000 "Save as a Web Page" option is horrendous.
>Adds a lot of crap code.  I tried using the Word Compact HTML fix (a
>download from the MS Office site) but the end result was virtually identical
>to the garbage code of the original.  So I tried the Dreamweaver 3 demo.
>That stripped ALL of the tags (good and bad) out of the page, so I was left
>with a 100-page paragraph with no tags at all and a few lines of machine
>language!!
>
>My last resort is having downloaded Star Office from the Sun site because I
>heard it does a rather nice job of conversion.  But the StarOffice suite
>includes e-mail components I don't need, so I'm a bit leery of installing it
>for fear of the e-mail feature destroying my current MS Exchange/Outlook
>settings.  (The Star Office download was in 7 parts so I don't know if it
>will prompt me only for the things I want or will automatically install the
>e-mail portion without my consent.)
>
>SIGH.
>
>Paul
>-- to the glory of GOD and the greater good 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Raymond Mosley [mailto:rmosley(at)sprynet.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:32 AM
>To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
>Subject: Re: MS Word Generated HTML Code
>
>
>> My problem is I use an HTML editor and so I can barely follow the messed
>up code that Word
>> generates.
>> Is there a utility to clean up the Word Code?
>
>There is a Word plug-in called MS Office HTML Filter, or Compact HTML,
>available I believe at Microsoft's website (sorry, I don't remember the
>details). It will take a Word file that has been "Save[d] As HTML" and
>"export" it to a supposedly slimmed-down version of the code. The end result
>is still pretty disgraceful, though...good luck!
>
>Raymond Mosley
>


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