RE: Tool to clean up MS Word (2003)

["Zagorac, Mladen" <Mladen -dot- Zagorac -at- lionbridge -dot- com>]

I don't think what Sylvia meant was cleaning up Word-generated HTML, but rather unused styles.

Sylvia, I haven't tried it out myself, but you might want to follow this procedure http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;193536. One would expect it to work since it comes straight from the horse's mouth.

Mladen
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Subject: Re: Tool to clean up MS Word (2003)

SB <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Is there a tool out there that allows you to clean up MS Word?
>
>  We are trying to apply a template but many styles are redundant and I
>  am wondering if there is a tool that can identify the styles that have
>  different names but the same formatting.
>
>  In short, I am wondering how we can have clean documents without
>  having to paste everything as text and reformatting everything from
>  scratch. Is this possible?

If you use Word's save-as HTML, then apply  one of more of:

HTML Tidy, which cleans up bad HTML:
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

The Amaya browser/editor, which has a built-in HTML validator:
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

The demoroniser, a program from Fermilabs specifically for
fixing Microsoft HTML's gratuitous standards violations:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

That should get you to clean HTML.

But HTML is all ASCII text, so (with or without the cleanups
suggested above) you should be able to open it in any text
editor and use search-and-replace to your heart's content.
That should let you fix any tagging oddities.

Then read it back into Word and apply more tags as needed.

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