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Re: Nice MS Word --> HTML converter?

  • Subject: Re: Nice MS Word --> HTML converter?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:03:20 +0100
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Ignoramus20931 wrote:

> One of the most brilliant and prolific contributors to my website
> algebra.com wants to contribute a few lessons. He already has them in
> MS word. He wants to convert them to HTML. These lessons would be
> stored in a mysql database and wrapped into my own headers and footers
> etc.
> 
> So, what I am looking for is an easy converter, that does not generate
> the <HEAD> part, andthat produces easy to read, lightweight HTML. Not
> some FrontPage like crapola.
> 
> Any suggestions? He is using windows, so any unix tools are non
> starters. I would like something very easy.
> 
> thanks
> 
> i

I have just opened a 100 page MSWord file in Open Office and exported it as
HTML. It looks decent (no mso objects in the source), but you will still
need to cut off <head> manually and you are not guaranteed that thing will
look exactly the same as in the orignal. There also appear to be many
<table>s involved, which I guess is plausible.

I suggest that your friend installs the most recent beta of OpenOffice.org
(which approaches version 2) and uses it for conversion.

Roy

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