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      3rd Sep 2006
Good catches, D. I see your points; sorry for the unsolicited "advice".

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Daiya Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Pop,
>
> On 9/3/06 8:37 AM, "Pop`" wrote:
>
>> Not to be a PIA, but rather to add some relevant information here:
>>
>> Daiya Mitchell wrote:

>
>>> since Word doesn't actually build
>>> web pages, but instead stores all the information it would need to
>>> reconstruct a Word document from the HTML format.

>>
>> Not quite: You're splitting hairs with "doesn't actually build web
>> pages" because it in fact does, and it saves them to disk in
>> perfectly readable AND edittable format by Word or any other text
>> editor.

>
> Right, that was sloppy writing.
>>
>>> Most people don't
>>> understand, or care to understand, the arcane process by which that
>>> is done. Word offers many features that browsers simply won't
>>> understand/replicate.

>>
>> You are misunderstanding. In HTML design mode, Word writes very
>> capable code, including xml, albeit pretty bloated, but again it's
>> not intended for the web. That said however, ALL of the major
>> browsers read Word's code very well, especially IE of course. In
>> fact, the whole Office suite can write pretty good and usable by
>> browsers, code. There are a very few things that the latest version
>> of Word cannot do. What you said is just plain inaccurate.

>
> Actually, you missed my point, or I wasn't clear. Many people using
> Word for web pages seem to expect the *Word*-specific features to
> transfer over into HTML, and I'm basing this on questions posted by
> people on these newsgroups. For instance, Font Scaling, Kerning, I
> think I've seen someone ask about section breaks, people ask where
> their columns went because they wanted side by side text.... Word
> offers many features that browsers simply won't understand/replicate.
>
> I suspect that if you use the HTML mode of Word to design webpages,
> what you get is pretty much what you see. However, the impression I
> get (again, from questions posted here), is that most people design
> their webpages-to-be in the regular modes of Word, not in HTML mode,
> and that they expect the full range of Word tools to be available to
> them, which is simply not the case.
>
> PS. A quick test suggests that HTML mode does not hide such features
> as columns, but that applying them to an HTML doc does nothing.




 
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      5th Sep 2006
No need to apologize, especially since I *was* sloppy. Anyhow, can there be
any such thing as unsolicited advice on a public platform where one asks
thousands of strangers for help?

Daiya


On 9/3/06 2:56 PM, "Pop`" wrote:

> Good catches, D. I see your points; sorry for the unsolicited "advice".
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