How to Convert a Word Document to HTML With Dreamweaver

Although Microsoft Word can automatically convert documents to HTML, it's not always the best way. Dreamweaver will remove unneeded tags and change Word font and size attributes to HTML codes. This tutorial uses Dreamweaver 3.0.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Word

1. Open Microsoft Word and locate the page to be converted. Choose Save As Web Page from the File menu, or choose Save As from the File menu and change the extension to .html (example: document.doc to document.html).

2. Start the Dreamweaver program. From the File menu, choose Import, then Import Word HTML.

3. Locate and select the page to be opened. Click OK. The Clean Up Word HTML dialog box opens.

4. Select the Word version the document was saved in (choose 97/98 for older versions of Word).

5. Choose the desired options (see Tips for more information about the options available) by checking or unchecking the boxes. Click on the Details tab for more options.

6. Click OK when finished. A dialog box detailing the changes will appear; click OK.

7. Edit the page as desired, saving and previewing when finished.

Tips & Warnings

• Remove Word Specific Tags removes all tags generated by Word that aren't recognized in standard HTML, including XML tags. See the Details tab for more options.
• Clean Up CSS removes all Word-specific cascading style sheet (CSS) tags. See the Details tab for more options.
• Clean Up Font Tag removes all Word tags and converts fonts to normal HTML tags.
• Fix Invalidly Nested Tags removes all unneeded nesting tags generated by Word.
• Set Background Color automatically defaults to white; change if another color is desired.
• Apply Source Formatting applies source formatting according to your HTML Source Formatting Preferences (under the Preferences menu, HTML Settings).
• Show Log on Completion displays a dialog box briefly listing changes made.
• Documents saved in versions prior to Word 97 may not be completely cleaned up using this feature.

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[conticreative]

on 11/19/2008 Because even Dreamweaver cannot eliminate all the junk in MS Word. Save as Text and then paste in Dreamweaver. Reapply the styles and you'll end up with clean HTML.

[nickheer]

on 7/25/2008 why is the code so long in dreamweaver & why cant i import the html doc into dreamweaver as the word doc is not highlighted