HTML from Microsoft Word or Wordperfect

(Edited 6/30/2000)
Creating HTML pages from simple documents you have previously created in a word processor such as syllabi and class assignments is quite easy using Wordperfect or Microsoft Word. If you have a document created in one of these programs one way to turn them into web pages is the following steps:
 
NOTE: I try to avoid this method for creating a web page.  Microsoft Word 2000 places an enormous amount of useless code in a page and often has problems with complex formatting.  One alternative is to copy the page [<Ctrl><a> then <Ctrl><c> then open a blank web page in Netscape Composer and past the page [<Ctrl><v>].  You will have to clean up the formatting. 

Another possibility:
One big problem with web documants created with Word 2000 is they contain a large amount of excess code.  A thoughtful web master would download and use the following to make your web document saved in Microsoft Word 2000 cleaner and quicker to read by a browser.

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/Msohtmf2.htm
    Word Screenshot

    (2) Find the HTML save function in your program and save your document. I suggest you have a folder already created because graphics and text in a word-processing file are saved as different files for web pages..
     

      In the PC version of Microsoft Word 2000 the HTML save function is in the File  menu Save as Web Page...
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    Word screenshot
    (3) As soon as the file is saved the current version of Word switches to an HTML form where you can further edit your file. The switch from word processing to HTML is not perfect so usually you will need to do some editing.

    (4) Save your HTML file again if changes were made.

    (5) I usually start Netscape Communicator, bring in the file I just created, choose Edit Page from the File menu and perform any edits still needed. I have found Communicator to be much more WYSIWYG then word processors, at least for HTML.

    (6) Transfer your files to the web server.