Word barfs on non-standard HTML file

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Guy Worthington

I've a problem with importing an HTML file. Since I like
to be self-sufficient and I'm always open to new experiences,
I decided to solve my problem by following Jezebel's advice of
a nice long walk while letting my imagination run free. Today
was perfect walking weather, cold, dark, blustery, and a steady
drizzle - the type of day that keeps the young and opinionated,
the frail and lonely, and the louts who've just too much time on
their hands, indoors. Rugged up warm against the weather I cut
a dashing figure with my walking buddy; indeed compared to us,
Dicken's Bill Sykes and his bow-legged bulldog would've looked
friendly and approachable.

Of course in the human flotsam and jetsam still walking, there
was a clown that could pull the expression "it's not the dog's
fault it's the owner's", an old crone who lacked the energy to
ring a bike bell, but still demanded I be off the footpath as she
wobbled by, and the power-walker who expected me to reciprocate
her cheerio and wave, even though it's blindingly obvious that I
needed both hands on the lead to stop 90lbs of bulldog from smashing
someone's fence and taking out their cat.

I've now returned from my walk and I still have the problem.

I have imported an HTML file into Word 97, but Word 97 isn't
converting the HTML. Infact all I'm getting is lots of markup-tags
starting with:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>

Is there an additional filter, that I require to be able to
display the HTML as HTML?

PS. I can display the HTML file in a modern browser like IE 6.

Yours sincerely

put off of long walks for life
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Worthington" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: Word barfs on non-standard HTML file

I've a problem with importing an HTML file. Since I like
to be self-sufficient and I'm always open to new experiences,
I decided to solve my problem by following Jezebel's advice of
a nice long walk while letting my imagination run free. Today
was perfect walking weather, cold, dark, blustery, and a steady
drizzle - the type of day that keeps the young and opinionated,
the frail and lonely, and the louts who've just too much time on
their hands, indoors. Rugged up warm against the weather I cut
a dashing figure with my walking buddy; indeed compared to us,
Dicken's Bill Sykes and his bow-legged bulldog would've looked
friendly and approachable.

Of course in the human flotsam and jetsam still walking, there
was a clown that could pull the expression "it's not the dog's
fault it's the owner's", an old crone who lacked the energy to
ring a bike bell, but still demanded I be off the footpath as she
wobbled by, and the power-walker who expected me to reciprocate
her cheerio and wave, even though it's blindingly obvious that I
needed both hands on the lead to stop 90lbs of bulldog from smashing
someone's fence and taking out their cat.

I've now returned from my walk and I still have the problem.

I have imported an HTML file into Word 97, but Word 97 isn't
converting the HTML. Infact all I'm getting is lots of markup-tags
starting with:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>

Is there an additional filter, that I require to be able to
display the HTML as HTML?

PS. I can display the HTML file in a modern browser like IE 6.

Yours sincerely

put off of long walks for life

AFAIK or am aware, VML (Vector Markup Language) was not available with
either Word 97 or the Word 97 Supplemental HTML package?

Is it possible that you are saving the html page with a newer edition of
Word and then attempting to convert to Word97-html?

Any html page may be viewed with NotePad, WordPad or most any text editor.
Translating and understanding the gibberish bulk that Word adds to html is
another issue.
 
lostinspace said:
Guy Worthington wrote:

Hello lostinspace:

Sorry for not replying sooner. I've been waiting for your reply to
turn up on Google - I feel comfortable replying using Google and
uncomfortable using any other News client.
AFAIK or am aware, VML (Vector Markup Language) was not available with
either Word 97 or the Word 97 Supplemental HTML package?

Why have I the feeling, that of all the Word versions, Word 97 is
the biggest lemon?
Is it possible that you are saving the html page with a newer edition
of Word and then attempting to convert to Word97-html?

Any html page may be viewed with NotePad, WordPad or most any text
editor.

Translating and understanding the gibberish bulk that Word adds to html
is another issue.

Bloat! This file is 528k as text and 1826k as HTML, that means about
three-quarters of the file is markup. There ain't no way I'm going
to edit that so I just opened the file in IE 6, saved the file as text
and imported the text into Word 97.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Worthington" <>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.word.docmanagement,microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: Word barfs on non-standard HTML file

Hello lostinspace:

Sorry for not replying sooner. I've been waiting for your reply to
turn up on Google - I feel comfortable replying using Google and
uncomfortable using any other News client.


Why have I the feeling, that of all the Word versions, Word 97 is
the biggest lemon?




Bloat! This file is 528k as text and 1826k as HTML, that means about
three-quarters of the file is markup. There ain't no way I'm going
to edit that so I just opened the file in IE 6, saved the file as text
and imported the text into Word 97.

Guy,
As a general rule, 528kb is way too large for an web page.
The complications with Word 97 created web pages is because the internet had
not yet achieved a full steam in 95-96 (or perhaps even earlier) when the MS
folks were creating Word 97 and as a result it was never intended to use in
creation of web pages. The html supplemental package afterthought. Even
today with the latest edition of Word the concept was never intended to use
Word as a basic tool of html creation. Rather the sole intent that MS has
was ONLY to assure transport of Word documents displayed as web pages being
returned to a viable Word source document.

Do you have some specific requirement in which you need the html page in
Word?

If not, than just save the web page using IE's "save as" and use another
tool intended for web pages.
Ms FrontPage is one alternative, ONLY if you refrain from coping and pasting
ANYTHING from Word to FrontPage.
 
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