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Subject:cleaner Word 2000 to HTML From:CHAI-ELSHOLZ Raeleen <raeleen -dot- chai-elsholz -at- auditec-newtest -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:47:34 +0100
I'd just like to add a third helpful thing to the list Kathryn sent (I'm on
the digest - see below).
I found in the Robohelp knowledge base a cool little "filter" that allows
you to make cleaner HTML files from Word 2000 than you would by simply
saving a Word file as an .htm file.
If you are using **Word 2000**, go to http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx and download a
thing called "Office HTML Filter 2.0". When you install it, it adds an
"Export To" option to Word's "File" menu options. You can export to "Compact
HTML", which, according to the RH knowledge base, elmininates weird,
Word-specific things from the code.
Takes just a couple minutes. You are supposed to end up with standard HTML 4
code. HTH.
Raeleen Chai-Elsholz
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Subject: Dreaded Word HTML
From: Grant-Kathryn <Grant-Kathryn -at- vikingfreight -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:00:45 -0800
X-Message-Number: 4
Word's garbage HTML definitely gets my vote for most dreaded!! :) Two
things I've found helpful:
1. The most recent version of Dreamweaver has a "clean up Word HTML garbage
code" feature. It's not perfect, but on the last document I cleaned up, it
got rid of about 6,000 superfluous codes, according to the little status
screen.
2. I personally don't care for FrontPage, but we use it where I work. If
you use it too, you can strip out a lot of the garbage code by importing the
Word document as is to FP (in other words, import it without saving it to
HTML first). Then right-click on the Word document, choose Open With, then
choose FrontPage (frontpg.exe).
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