Using Word Documents

Importing Microsoft Word^® Documents - by SBR
Documents created in Microsoft Word use unique Microsoft Word formatting which is not cross browser compatible and can create unpredictable results when used in a site w/ other CSS and styles. Traditionally the solution has been to either to copy the document to Notepad, and Paste the content from Notepad to FrontPage (thus losing all formatting and paragraph breaks), or Save the file as Html (Web Page) in Word and use File Import to bring the .htm file into FrontPage (then attempt to clean out all the Microsoft Word round tripping styles and reformat the document).
An alternative approach to get clean html coding in FrontPage from a document created in Microsoft Word 2003, is to: File Import the Word .doc file into a folder in your Site In Folder List or Folder View Right click the .doc file and select open with FrontPage (open as Html) - FrontPage will open the file as a RTF and create a new HTML page From the Menu select Edit - Select All Then Format Remove Formatting to clean out any residual Fonts, etc. File save and rename the new html page The resultant page should be essentially formatted just as paragraphs and have no Word round tripping code or formatting. The paragraphs can be easily be converted to a table by selecting all text (using the cursor) and then selecting Table Convert Text to Table (paragraphs).
Notes: - Many special styles from Word (especially Word 2000) may not translate correctly - for more information see Office 2000 White Paper: Browser Compatibility - Word Pages formatted with tables and multiple columns will be will be converted to a single column. - You may also delete any META data from Word in Code View in the HEAD section, such as: <META NAME="UseDefaultLanguage" CONTENT="1"> <META NAME="Version" CONTENT="2003051900"> <META NAME="LCID" CONTENT="1033"> <META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\.....">

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