Microsoft Word to HTML

Many people have Microsoft Word documents and want to publish them on the Web. Because Microsoft Word uses some proprietary HTML tags, Dreamweaver now has a feature to clean up an HTML document generated in Word, making this transition easier.

First of all, you must save your Word document as an HTML document. Do this while you are still working in Word.

1. Go to your file menu and choose Save as HTML to convert your Word document into an HTML document.
2. Save the file with a .html file extension.
3. Now go into Dreamweaver and open the HTML document you saved in Word.
4. In the new HTML document window, go to the Commands menu and choose Clean Up Word HTML.

Dreamweaver will detect the version of Word used to create the document and will perform a set of tasks to clean up the HTML formatting, including deleting proprietary Word tags, fixing invalid nesting, and other such things. You can turn off any of the cleanup options, but there is likely no harm in leaving all the cleanup options turned on.

Another way to get your Word-generated HTML file into Dreamweaver is to choose File > Import > Import Word HTML. Dreamweaver will open a new document automatically and perform the same cleanup operations as though you had already opened the file.