purplecape
msg:3586331 | 7:10 pm on Feb 27, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I occasionally get Word docs. from contributors. I open them in Word, save them as HTML. Then I open them in DreamWeaver, which has a menu item you can select that cleans up the Word HTML (which is crap)--and it's configurable in a number of ways. Once I've done that I have clean code that I can use in a template.
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einsteinsboi
msg:3587334 | 6:05 pm on Feb 28, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I have a bunch of Word documents with notes that I created, all preformatted. This might be interesting to try. I wonder though how to handle equations. Most of my docs are my academic notes, and they have all sorts of equations. It will be interesting to see how Dreamweaver handles those.
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purplecape
msg:3587743 | 3:24 am on Feb 29, 2008 (gmt 0) |
If Word converts the symbols correctly when it converts to HTML (and if there are HTML character codes for all of them), then you should be OK from there. Let us know what happens!
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omegaman66
msg:3607795 | 3:13 am on Mar 22, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Word sucks! I have found it is more trouble in most cases to save .Doc files as .html files and then clean them up than it is to just copy and past the contents into a blank page and add html code to it.
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purplecape
msg:3608136 | 6:20 pm on Mar 22, 2008 (gmt 0) |
True. Depends on the type and amount of formatting--but the converting approach is worth trying first, before you fall back on the copy and paste technique.
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lavazza
msg:3608165 | 7:40 pm on Mar 22, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I agree... But... for a quick workaround, you could try OpenOffice I just ran a very quick experiment using OOo writer to save (as HTML) an old and rather complicated, 18-page word.doc file that had a variety of headers, regular paragraphs, tables nested within tables, bulleted lists and images It failed the w3c validator (as HTML 4.0 Transitional) for only FOUR reasons:
- The STYLE tag was missing type="text/css"
- All IMGs were missing alt attributes (However, as OOo assigned a NAME="theFileName" attribute to each image, this was v easy to fix manually)
- All ULs tags nested within other ULs weren't preceded by an LI tag
- All TABLEs were declared with an (invalid) attribute of "BORDERCOLOR"
Not bad... Not perfect either... so... I still agree with omegaman66 above
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g1smd
msg:3608190 | 8:53 pm on Mar 22, 2008 (gmt 0) |
If you do convert such documents (especially if you use any Microsoft product to do it) it is imperitive that you clean up the markup.
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