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Converting Word to HTML
Have you ever tried converting a Word document to FrontPage? It can be a code nightmare.
But fortunately there are work arounds to accommodate this code bloat. Microsoft has put out a Word to html converter.
You can download it here.
This tool makes some nice css code in the head of the page and much of the extraneous code is removed from the body of the html. It’s a free download. So you might find it worthwhile.
However, for my purposes, I found that using WordPad is by far the best solution. I simply copy and pasted my content from Word to WordPad. And from there I pasted that content into FrontPage. The code was unbelievably condensed. It kept basic font characteristics in place but didn’t add any of the excessive style code that Word transfers. Also, links and table structures stayed intact - also in a nice, clean format.
This solution wouldn’t work if you were trying to transfer images from Word to FrontPage. But it would be quite simple to add those later. And actually, the less formatting I get from Word the better. I can easily modify layout once I get it into FrontPage.
So, if you find yourself moving content from Word to FrontPage I highly recommend giving this a try. It will make your pages load faster and the search engines will love it!