From Word to HTM ?

[Terry Pinnell]

When I last sought help on this last November I had a lot of useful
advice. At one end there was the simple approach: copy from Word,
paste to text editor, copy from text editor, paste to FrontPage.
That's OK for plain text, but my current document has lots of
formatting (bold, italics, etc). At the more complex end of the scale
was conversion with MSOffice HTML Filter 2.0. Unfortunately I ended up
with quite a mess of redundant code that way. I probably haven't
mastered it.

Is there an optimum method the experts can recommend for *this*
document please?
http://www.cupod-mentoring.com/coupe project.doc

I'm using FP2000 on a Windows XP PC.

 

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When I open it, it opens formatted and within Word within IE...I can even edit it - run spell checker, grammar checker...everythang. It's pretty cool. I didn't check the code. But, you should run spell checker on it ;-)


| When I last sought help on this last November I had a lot of useful
| advice. At one end there was the simple approach: copy from Word,
| paste to text editor, copy from text editor, paste to FrontPage.
| That's OK for plain text, but my current document has lots of
| formatting (bold, italics, etc). At the more complex end of the scale
| was conversion with MSOffice HTML Filter 2.0. Unfortunately I ended up
| with quite a mess of redundant code that way. I probably haven't
| mastered it.
|
| Is there an optimum method the experts can recommend for *this*
| document please?
| http://www.cupod-mentoring.com/coupe project.doc
|
| I'm using FP2000 on a Windows XP PC.
|
| --
| Terry, West Sussex, UK
|

 

[chris leeds]

there was just recently a little tip from Wally!
what you do is get a page open in FrontPage that you want the word file
contents on. then in windows explorer drag the word doc onto the page at
the point you want it's contents to appear.
It's supposed to automatically convert the word doc. to rtf so you'll keep
major formatting but leave behind the "junk".
HTH
......also hope I understood Wally's instructions. if I didn't I'm sure
he'll correct me. ;-)

 

[Birk Binnard]

Use Wordpad instead of Notepad. It will handle almost any formatiing issues
and the copy/paste/copy/paste will still be clean.

Alternatively, FP2003 HTML Cleanup is supposed to clean up all the Word
junk, but I haven't tested this yet.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Take a look at
http://sbrenjoy.bizland.com/frontpage/word.htm

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| When I last sought help on this last November I had a lot of useful
| advice. At one end there was the simple approach: copy from Word,
| paste to text editor, copy from text editor, paste to FrontPage.
| That's OK for plain text, but my current document has lots of
| formatting (bold, italics, etc). At the more complex end of the scale
| was conversion with MSOffice HTML Filter 2.0. Unfortunately I ended up
| with quite a mess of redundant code that way. I probably haven't
| mastered it.
|
| Is there an optimum method the experts can recommend for *this*
| document please?
| http://www.cupod-mentoring.com/coupe project.doc
|
| I'm using FP2000 on a Windows XP PC.
|
| --
| Terry, West Sussex, UK
|

 

[Wally S]

You got it right. You keep all your font formatting this way. It's a great
time and work saver. Try it, and if it doesn't work, let me know.

Wally S

there was just recently a little tip from Wally!
what you do is get a page open in FrontPage that you want the word file
contents on. then in windows explorer drag the word doc onto the page at
the point you want it's contents to appear.
It's supposed to automatically convert the word doc. to rtf so you'll keep
major formatting but leave behind the "junk".
HTH
.....also hope I understood Wally's instructions. if I didn't I'm sure
he'll correct me. ;-)

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Use Wordpad instead of Notepad. It will handle almost any formatiing issues
and the copy/paste/copy/paste will still be clean.

Alternatively, FP2003 HTML Cleanup is supposed to clean up all the Word
junk, but I haven't tested this yet.

Thanks for those three responses so far. Will follow up each of them.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

You got it right. You keep all your font formatting this way. It's a great
time and work saver. Try it, and if it doesn't work, let me know.

Wally S

That worked fine, thanks a lot. Inevitably there was a fair amount of
re-styling to do, but the basis provided by the RTF file was
relatively clean. I think the method linked by Stefan is fundamentally
the same.

Result is at http://www.cupod-mentoring.com/coupeproject2004.htm

 

[Kevin Spencer]

BTW, it should be pointed out (again) that while you can hammer nails with a
screw driver, it's much better to use a hammer.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.