Re: [ATM] How to make clean(er) html for web pages in MS Word

[Pete <lenses@adelphia.net>]

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Hope this is helpful,
Peter Nance, Jr.
lenses@adelphia.net


Mark Holm wrote:
> Ulhas Deshpande wrote:
>
>   
>> Yes, as pointed out by Mark the page is created with MS word.
>>     
>
> Since a lot of people (including many atm's) want to use MS Word to
> create web pages, I will post this to the list and not just to Ulhas.
>
> As discussed in an earlier message, MS Word, left to it's defaults, puts
> a lot of non standard code into web pages (html).  Browsers other than
> MW Internet Explorer often do not render these files properly.  A way
> that may help is to change some settings in MS Word.
>
> Quoting from the Word 2003 help file:
>
> On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
> Click Web Options, and then click the Browsers tab.
> Select the Disable features not supported by these browsers check box.
> In the People who view this Web page will be using box, choose your browser.
>
> Select the option that includes MS Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape
> Navitgator 4.0 or later.  This probably will not give complete standards
> compliance, but will probably be good enough for most browsers to render
> your pages properly.
>
> On that same options screen, CSS is OK.  Most browsers now support it.
> If you really want to be back compatible though, turn it off.
> Likewise,PNG is OK in most recent browsers, but I find that PNG image
> files are usually larger than equivalent JPG files.  You probably want
> to stay away from VML.  That is asking for more non standard MS stuff.
>
>
> Then, and this is important, when you save the file, use the "Save As"
> menu item and save it as "Web Page Filtered" html.
>
> The difference between filtered and unfiltered is night and day.
> unfiltered contains all sorts of extra code.  It is there to support
> features of MS Word that simply do not exist in standard HTML.  When you
> post web pages to the web, you can not assume everybody uses MSIE.  The
> "filtered" option should make code that works properly in most browsers.
>
> The "filtered" option will also save you storage space and save
> everybody download bandwidth.  A simple page with one line of text and
> one image came out to 4290 bytes unfiltered, but only 760 bytes filtered
> (not counting the image file size in both cases.)
>
>   

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