Freeware Word to HTML ?

[John Fitzsimons]

Using Word to save to HTML doesn't give good code. Having searched
for a freeware solution I came across numerous programs that weren't
freeware, didn't install on a win 98SE system (though advertising that
they did) or simply didn't work.

Can anyone here recommend a solution that actually WORKS and will
install on a win 98SE system please ?


Regards, John.

 

[Nik Coughlin]

Using Word to save to HTML doesn't give good code. Having searched
for a freeware solution I came across numerous programs that weren't
freeware, didn't install on a win 98SE system (though advertising that
they did) or simply didn't work.

Can anyone here recommend a solution that actually WORKS and will
install on a win 98SE system please ?

Save as HTML from Word then run through HTMLTidy

Easiest way to do it on Windows is to use is TidyGui, which works on all
Win32 platforms so 98SE should be fine

There is an option in TidyGui for "file was output by MS Word" or something
like that

 

[Lars Eighner]

Can anyone here recommend a solution that actually WORKS and will
install on a win 98SE system please ?

If you have perl, there is demoronizer. It will be about the first hit for
its name on google.

 

[Gary Peek]

Using Word to save to HTML doesn't give good code. Having searched
for a freeware solution I came across numerous programs that weren't
freeware, didn't install on a win 98SE system (though advertising that
they did) or simply didn't work.

Can anyone here recommend a solution that actually WORKS and will
install on a win 98SE system please ?

I wrote a simple utility to simplify the lousy HTML that Word
generates with "save as HTML". It has a number of options to
play with, and it strips out things very aggressively, so your
mileage may very. http://www.garypeek.com/basic/ called xtag.exe

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit Nik Coughlin:

Save as HTML from Word then run through HTMLTidy

Last time I checked, Tidy messed things up somewhat, e.g. introducing a
confusing jungle of <span> elements with oddly named class attributes.

I think the only things that really need fixing after Save as HTML,
Compressed (or whatever it's called in each version of Word) are the
width attributes for table cells and excessive use of <p> markup. And
the <style> elements, of course, but they are easily removed.

 

[Don]

Using Word to save to HTML doesn't give good code. Having searched
for a freeware solution I came across numerous programs that weren't
freeware, didn't install on a win 98SE system (though advertising that
they did) or simply didn't work.

Can anyone here recommend a solution that actually WORKS and will
install on a win 98SE system please ?


Regards, John.

Here's a link to a Word tool that does a decent job, although incomplete:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=MICROSFOT+OFFICE+HTML+FILTER+2.0
&btnG=Google+Search

Word was NEVER intended ny MS to be a an html poublisher, rather a
transport medioum to assure the returm of Word vrested htnl back into am
original Word Doc.

 

[Raymond SCHMIT]

Using Word to save to HTML doesn't give good code. Having searched
for a freeware solution I came across numerous programs that weren't
freeware, didn't install on a win 98SE system (though advertising that
they did) or simply didn't work.

Can anyone here recommend a solution that actually WORKS and will
install on a win 98SE system please ?

With Word 2003 you may save as....
Web Page(*.htm; *.html)
or as...
Web Page, filtered(*.htm; *.html).

 

[Raymond SCHMIT]

Does anyone know how to do the opposite -- Sabve a HTML website
with linked subpages to Word? Freeware or Paid is OK by me.

We are not masochist

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Save as HTML from Word then run through HTMLTidy

Easiest way to do it on Windows is to use is TidyGui, which works on all
Win32 platforms so 98SE should be fine

There is an option in TidyGui for "file was output by MS Word" or something
like that

Okay, will investigate. Thank you also for pointing out that option. I
probably wouldn't have noticed it.


Regards, John.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

John Fitzsimons wrote:

I wrote a simple utility to simplify the lousy HTML that Word
generates with "save as HTML". It has a number of options to
play with, and it strips out things very aggressively, so your
mileage may very. http://www.garypeek.com/basic/ called xtag.exe

Thank you. Looks pretty interesting.


Regards, John.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

With Word 2003 you may save as....
Web Page(*.htm; *.html)
or as...
Web Page, filtered(*.htm; *.html).

Not sure 2003 works on a 98SE system. I will however look at it on an
XP system sometime. Thank you for the suggestion.


Regards, John.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

In our last episode, <[email protected]>, the
lovely and talented John Fitzsimons broadcast on alt.html:

If you have perl, there is demoronizer. It will be about the first hit for
its name on google.

Thank you.

Regards, John.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Here's a link to a Word tool that does a decent job, although incomplete:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=MICROSFOT+OFFICE+HTML+FILTER+2.0
&btnG=Google+Search

< snip >

Well, it certainly does a better job than the "default". Thank you for
the recommendation. I hadn't been aware of this existing before.


Regards, John.