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Converting Word Files to HTML

Microsoft Word is one of the easiest and most effective document tools to create course materials and documents for faculty and staff. However, there may be some problems with unnecessary HTML tags and other formatting issues emerged when the conversion from Word to HTML is processed. By removing the tags, you reduce the size of the document, which in turn reduces both the amount of space used on Web servers as well as the time it takes to download the page. If you want to get rid of the unneeded tags generated by Word, you can perform the following clean-ups in Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0. You can go to http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/htmlfilter.aspx, to download this freeware.

After downloading Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0, you can follow the instructions below to 'filter' your course materials and documents.

To filter a document in Word

Open the document you want to filter.
On the File menu, point to Export To and then click Compact HTML.

To create a cascading style sheet (.css) in Word

Open the document on which you want to base the style sheet.
On the File menu, point to Export To, and then click CSS Stylesheet.

To copy text from a Word document as HTML

In Word, open the document you want to copy text from and select the text you want to copy.
On the Edit menu, click Copy as HTML.

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