How to Convert a Word Document to HTML With FrontPage

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Luis Estrada and I'm a software developer. In this video, I'll show you how to convert word document to HTML with Frontpage. Frontpage is a registered trademark of Microsoft, a company to which I have know affiliation. Here I have a Word document that I want to transform in to a webpage. There are three ways that you can put this information in to Frontpage. The first one is saving this file as an HTML page. The second one is using the filtered web page option. And the third one is to copy the text and paste it in to Frontpage. Let's explore all three options and see the differences, but first let's have a look at the document and see if a few of its characteristics. This document uses two indents as columns. It has different font sizes and colors. It uses italics and bold fonts. It has hyper links and images used as hyper links. It has diagrams and word art. To save this file as HTML, just click on the Office button, select save as, and choose other formats. Select the web page option. If you go to the folder where you stored the file, you will see a forty three kilobyte HTML file in a folder of almost four megabytes containing all pictures and formating files. Open the original Word document again. Now save this file using the web page filtered option. A warning shows up. This is telling us that using the filtered option will remove specific tabs used by Office applications. Some features of the document will not be available when we open this document in another Office application, such as Frontpage. The difference between saving using the filtered option is the file size. When you are done making changes to your Word document and you are ready to upload it to a web server, it is better to use this option because it leaves a much smaller file size. The HTML file size for this option is only a few kilo bytes, and the directory holding the image is less than one megabyte. Now go to Frontpage, press file, open, and look for your HTML files. The differences between these two is that when you use the filtered option, the images loose quality when expanded. This doesn't happen in the other file that maintains the quality. Also, the Word Art is only an image that can not be edited in the filtered option, while in the other page, the Word Art can change font type, size, colors, and even shapes. The same thing happens with diagrams. In the filtered option, it can not be edited, while in the other page, you can change their size, and even add and edit its content. The final option of copying the text in Word and pasting it in to Frontpage yields the same result as if you save the file as a regular HTML file, where you can further edit images, Word Art, and diagrams. I'm Luis Estrada, and I have just showed you how to create a multi media website using Frontpage."