Way to clean up HTML pages

native file done in word

[Acternaweb]

I was given a website where the "designer" created it in word. Is there a way to remove all the extra "stuff" that is included in a quick and dirty way? Or do I need to touch every page?

Thoughts?

[bcolflesh]

MS tool for this purpose here:

microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=209ADBEE-3FBD-482C-83B0-96FB79B74DED&displaylang=en

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Heh...someone gave me a site 2 months ago, full of Word code. The guy that 'designed' it had to spend 2 weeks manually editing them out!

[sem4u]

If you have Dreamweaver there is a command to 'Clean Up Word HTML' :)

[mClarke]

An application called Wordcleaner might work, I know it works on individual documents, and it seems to have a batch/export function. If you wind up doing the pages individually and have Dreamweaver MX 2004, you can also get html from word by copying and pasting from the clipboard into the *design mode* view.

Drag and drop seems to work as well, an excel sheet went in with a minimal amount of code junk, though much of the font bolding came off the excel chart that I dragged into mx 2004.

[lukasz]

I think you will be better of doing it once again using CSS.
I suspect that even after "cleaning" your page will be full of unnecessary code (tons of font tags for example).

[g1smd]

I saw an online tool to clean up Word code. Seemed to save quite a lot of work in getting rid of obvious stuff.

However, if you are good with Find and Replace in a text editor, then you can do a whole page in a few minutes. The problem comes if you have more than a few dozen pages to fix.

Maybe, too, you should investigate ways to design the site so that common content is done by include files, PHP and ASP and others have a way to do this. This can make future site maintenance a whole lot easier too.