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Re: Word Document to HTML Validates 508

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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Nov 18, 2006 8:40AM

Thanks to Guido who provided the shorter link.

The MS HTML Filter v2.0 has been around for a long time and will only work
with MS Office 2000 and older. If you are using MS Office 2003, you can work
around the issue by saving as a text file (you lose all of your formatting
however, including bolds and italics) or when importing into your HTML
editor, use "Paste Special." This is the workaround for FrontPage.
Dreamweaver will accept the basic cut-and-paste from Word and delete all of
the MSO garbage.

The alternate is to use a tool like the one that you can buy from the Univ
of IL http://www.accessiblewizards.uiuc.edu/

My understanding is that the new version of Office will have a feature to
make this conversion easier.

We'll see.

~j

John E. Brandt
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com