dk01 — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:25:27 +0000

Megan wrote: Dreamweaver has a function that cleans up Word HTML. It takes out all the crap that MS puts in there.

I used DW to remove Word Tags from around 500 pages. Worked like a charm.

-dk

Megan — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:07:36 +0000

Dreamweaver has a function that cleans up Word HTML. It takes out all the crap that MS puts in there.

NewTechGuy — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:04:04 +0000

My brothers updates are from companies that he features on his website. So unfortunately we have to put up with whatever format they use. Most of the times the updates are in a simple email and it's no problem, but there are times, like the other day, when one company used "Word" and the article was 7 pages long...UGH!

However, I discovered that when you save a MS Word document using the "Save As" feature, and if you save it using the .mhtml (notice the "m") extension that it converts wonderfully and all you have to do is view source and copy it. The ONLY problem is that the paragraphs have extra code between them (unneccessary) and all you have to do is delete that code.

I'm not sure yet why the code is placed there in the first place and I've used all of the "Save As" features found in MS Word (there are about 4 or 5 options when saving) and they all place extra, unneccessary code between each paragraph. This however is much better to deal with as it only takes a VERY short amount of time (like 5 minutes or less for a 7 page document) to delete this code. Compare that to the 1 1/2 hours it usually took me to cut and paste and change all the apostrophe's (<--like that one) so they don't show up as tiny little squares.

Thanks for your help...I'll be sure to check out that option.

Busy — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:59:52 +0000

try editpad, has free version (lite) or paid version, paid version well worth the money.

or anything for that matter that has 'search and replace' feature.

I don't envy you translating from word, could be worse I suppose, could be early version of frontpage
why doesn't your brother just use notepad or something ?