Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

[Terrence Wood]

I've always found that you still need to eyeball the code because Word 
does some very strange things to lists, and headings in particular. Also 
a lot of Word documents are not styled properly to begin with (e.g. 
bold+font-size, instead of headings) which leads to added complexity to 
resolve.

Terrence Wood.
On 2004-11-23 12:19 PM, Lachlan Hardy wrote:
john wrote:
I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from 
a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting.

If you have Dreamweaver, try using the 'Clean Up Word HTML Tool'. Then 
'Convert to XHTML'. Any gunk left over after that is easily cleaned out 
using a few decent regular expressions in the 'Find and Replace'

Cheers,
Lachlan
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