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Nice MS Word --> HTML converter?

Ignoramus20931

2005-07-25, 11:52 pm

One of the most brilliant and prolific contributors to my website
algebra.com wants to contribute a few lessons. He already has them in
MS word. He wants to convert them to HTML. These lessons would be
stored in a mysql database and wrapped into my own headers and footers
etc.

So, what I am looking for is an easy converter, that does not generate
the <HEAD> part, andthat produces easy to read, lightweight HTML. Not
some FrontPage like crapola.

Any suggestions? He is using windows, so any unix tools are non
starters. I would like something very easy.

thanks

i

Steve Sobol

2005-07-25, 11:52 pm

Ignoramus20931 wrote:

> Any suggestions? He is using windows, so any unix tools are non
> starters. I would like something very easy.

You could save the file as RTF, and there are probably at least a few tools
that will do the trick. I don't know about converting from Word's native format.

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Roy Schestowitz

2005-07-26, 4:40 am

Ignoramus20931 wrote:

> One of the most brilliant and prolific contributors to my website
> algebra.com wants to contribute a few lessons. He already has them in
> MS word. He wants to convert them to HTML. These lessons would be
> stored in a mysql database and wrapped into my own headers and footers
> etc.
>
> So, what I am looking for is an easy converter, that does not generate
> the <HEAD> part, andthat produces easy to read, lightweight HTML. Not
> some FrontPage like crapola.
>
> Any suggestions? He is using windows, so any unix tools are non
> starters. I would like something very easy.
>
> thanks
>
> i

I have just opened a 100 page MSWord file in Open Office and exported it as
HTML. It looks decent (no mso objects in the source), but you will still
need to cut off <head> manually and you are not guaranteed that thing will
look exactly the same as in the orignal. There also appear to be many
<table>s involved, which I guess is plausible.

I suggest that your friend installs the most recent beta of OpenOffice.org
(which approaches version 2) and uses it for conversion.

Roy

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Toby Inkster

2005-07-26, 7:52 pm

Ignoramus20931 wrote:

> Nice MS Word --> HTML converter?

Use Word's built-in HTML export and then pass it through HTML Tidy
<http://tidy.sf.net/>.

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Brent Colflesh

2005-07-26, 7:53 pm

Office HTML Filter:

http://office.microsoft.com/downloa...0/Msohtmf2.aspx

Ignoramus20931 wrote:
> One of the most brilliant and prolific contributors to my website
> algebra.com wants to contribute a few lessons. He already has them in
> MS word. He wants to convert them to HTML. These lessons would be
> stored in a mysql database and wrapped into my own headers and footers
> etc.
>
> So, what I am looking for is an easy converter, that does not generate
> the <HEAD> part, andthat produces easy to read, lightweight HTML. Not
> some FrontPage like crapola.
>
> Any suggestions? He is using windows, so any unix tools are non
> starters. I would like something very easy.
>
> thanks
>
> i
>