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From: Joel Ward
Date: Oct 2, 2002 6:23AM

The Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 mentioned below does a good job at cleaning
out most of that garbage in Word (and supposedly Excel too). Coupled with
the Dreamweaver "Clean Word HTML" feature, you can get fairly clean HTML
documents, though you may lose some formatting in the process.

Keep in mind that you need to format the Word documents well for them to
convert to HTML well. If you don't use headings, paragraphs, etc. properly,
then it becomes much harder to get anything useful even from the HTML
Filter.

For some projects, instead of exporting the HTML from Word I've ended up
saving the file as "Text Only" and then adding the formatting back using
Dreamweaver. It was just easier, and produces very clean HTML. But I
realize that's not an option for everyone, especially non-technical folks.

I don't have any experience with Office XP, but I hear it does a better job
than 2000...

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From: "Rachael Zubal" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Web accessibility & MS Word


> 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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> Moana Jarvis wrote:
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> > 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?
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> Not sure about Word, but PowerPoint can create HTML that is entirely
> invisible to other browsers.
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> You might checkout:
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> Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0
> http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx
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