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From: Rachael Zubal
Date: Oct 2, 2002 6:14AM

I do believe that MS Word 2000 now converts word into XML which is full of extraneous garbage. Have others had this experience? And Power Point no longer easily converts into HTML either....

Very annoying!



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>>> <EMAIL REMOVED> 10/01/02 06:37PM >>>
Moana Jarvis wrote:

> Since lots of HTML code is added when you save a Microsoft Word
> document as a Web page, do screen readers have difficulties reading a
> Web page created by MS Word?

Not sure about Word, but PowerPoint can create HTML that is entirely
invisible to other browsers.

You might checkout:

Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx

TjL


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