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Subject:Re: Word 2000 HTML conversion From:Chuck <writer -at- BEST -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:59:28 -0700
First, anyone know why this wasn't part of the Word 2000 package?
Second, From what I see here, the HTML locks out anyone who hasn't
upgraded to an HTML 4.0-compliant browser. This is certainly an issue if
you're devloping HTML-based Help systems and trying to use Word's HTML
output with a display engine that is "only" HTML 3.2-compliant.
Ray Dembek wrote:
>
> You can download the Microsoft Office HTML Filter, a tool you can use to
> remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved
> as HTML. See
>http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/htmlfilter.htm.
> Installing this filter will also implement an Export to HTML command on
the
> File menu in Word 2000.
>
> The HTML code out of this is not "minimal" but it is a lot cleaner than
when
> you save a Word doc as a web page. The "Hello, World" test now results in
a
> 5K HTML document with still more than I want.
>
> The minimal document would contain:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Hello, World</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>Hello, World</p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> The 5K HTML from the HTML filter is:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Office HTML Filter">
> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9">
> <title>Hello, World</title>
> <style>
> <!--
>
> p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
> {
> margin:0in;
> margin-bottom:.0001pt;
> font-size:10.0pt;
> font-family:"Times New Roman";}
> -->
> </style>
> </head>
>
> <body lang=EN-US>
>
> <div class=Section1>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal>Hello, World</p>
>
> </div>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Technical Writers List; for all Technical Communication issues
> [mailto:TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU]On Behalf Of Eric J. Ray
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 11:22 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Word 2000 HTML conversion
>
> | Using Word 97 to convert a Word doc to HTML results in a lot of
extraneous
> | tags and a lot of manual clean-up. Someone told me here that Word 2000
> | produces a tighter, cleaner file.
> |
> | Has anyone out there tried this? Confirm? Deny?
>
> It's worse. Because Microsoft claims that you can round-trip
> files from Word to HTML and back to Word without losing
> formatting, they've had to add a ton of XML (pseudo XML,
> actually, with a lot of non-standard namespace issues)
> to each HTML document. When tech editing a new book on
> MS Word 2000, I tested it with the classic "Hello, World"
> and nothing else visible in the Word file, and came up with
> just about 100 lines of code in the HTML document.
>
> It might be a non-issue on an intranet, but you've got
> enough bloat to be a serious issue on the Internet.
>
> Eric
>
--
"Online help should ignore first-time users and concentrate
on those people who are already successful using the
product, but who want to expand their horizons."
- Alan Cooper
"About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design"
Chuck Martin
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