I sometimes need to take quite long MS Word documents and convert to simple
HTML, keeping only a minimum of formatting (paragraphs, italics, bold and
underline).  Word's own "save as web page" is of course a disaster.
There are quite a few software solutions but most of them seem either to be
over-elaborate and rather expensive, or else they only work on text
documents so they don't do italics etc.
I found
http://celebritycola.blogspot.com/2004/09/preserving-formatting-when-posting.html
which has a VB macro for Word, basically just a lot of automated
search-and-replace .  I haven't fully tested it by any means but it
basically seems to work and could be modified or extended by anyone who
likes playing with such things. So, anyone got any better solutions or
comments?

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> I sometimes need to take quite long MS Word documents and convert to simple
> HTML, keeping only a minimum of formatting (paragraphs, italics, bold and
> underline).  Word's own "save as web page" is of course a disaster.
> There are quite a few software solutions but most of them seem either to be
> over-elaborate and rather expensive, or else they only work on text
> documents so they don't do italics etc.
> I found
> http://celebritycola.blogspot.com/2004/09/preserving-formatting-when-posting.html
> which has a VB macro for Word, basically just a lot of automated
> search-and-replace .  I haven't fully tested it by any means but it
> basically seems to work and could be modified or extended by anyone who
> likes playing with such things. So, anyone got any better solutions or
> comments?

Last time I did that I converted the Word document to Nisus Writer
and got Nisus to do the HTML (this under Classic Mac OS)  It worked
pretty well, but I think Nisus is long gone.

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:48:58 GMT, "Tony" 
wrote:

>I sometimes need to take quite long MS Word documents and convert to simple
>HTML, keeping only a minimum of formatting (paragraphs, italics, bold and
>underline).  Word's own "save as web page" is of course a disaster.
>There are quite a few software solutions but most of them seem either to be
>over-elaborate and rather expensive, or else they only work on text
>documents so they don't do italics etc.
>I found
>http://celebritycola.blogspot.com/2004/09/preserving-formatting-when-posting.html
>which has a VB macro for Word, basically just a lot of automated
>search-and-replace .  I haven't fully tested it by any means but it
>basically seems to work and could be modified or extended by anyone who
>likes playing with such things. So, anyone got any better solutions or
>comments?

Open Office does a reasonable job.


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