Word HTML

hroberts - August 4, 2003 @ 6:42 pm · Filed under Code

An unfortunate Berkmanite edited a hand written html file in Word today. Predictably, Word horribly mangled the thing, destroying the server side includes (understandable) and mangling the formatting (unacceptable). The worst of the damage was Word’s conversion of an ordered list from: 

    

  1. list item
    2.

to: 


5.      list item

Thus was spent 30 minutes of my day fixing the html to its original sane form. Argh.

5 Comments

  1. Wendy

    August 4, 2003 @ 7:45 pm

    1

    Evil! Evil! Worse than Dreamweaver! 🙂

  2. Jesse Ross

    August 4, 2003 @ 9:10 pm

    2

    I’ve never tried this before, but my roomie told me about this: http://textism.com/resources/cleanwordhtml/

  3. Berkman Geek

    August 7, 2003 @ 4:23 pm

    3

    Gintaras Sekmokas on the abcd-www list claims that Dreamweaver also cleans up MS html. He also recommended:

    http://www.solmetra.com/en/disp.php/en_products/en_spaw/en_spaw_about

    which is a WYSIWIG editor with MSWord cleanup capablity — pretty cool.

  4. John

    August 26, 2003 @ 4:51 pm

    4

    You could have used Microsoft’s HTML Filter to get rid of the Word code:
    http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx

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