Hi Don,

Hmmm. Perhaps it wasn't stated clearly.

You can open HTML source and edit it directly in Word and
save it back as you would any other text file and Word won't
see it as an HTML file (i.e. it doesn't add 'bloat' to it).

If you open an HTML file into Word then edit it like any other
Word document then Word adds its markup when you save it back
out and choose HTML.

If folks are using Word only occassionaly to save in Web formats then one of the tradeoffs for file size is going to be the amount
of time in learning new tools and in messaging the content (i.e. beyond just 'save as' from Word) where someone has already created
a newsletter, flyer or document in Word and then doesn't want to spend time do anything other than let folks see it (looking as much
like the Word original as possible) in their browser, then file size is often not a priority concern, certainly not with the size of
some folks 'photo albums' on line these days g

While the 'filtered' web page option in Word doesn't remove 'everything' it does remove a fair amount if the size of the text
portions of the Word file are important to the user.


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"Don" wrote in message . 17.102...
NO!!!!
I'm very surprised at the 2nd paragraph response from Bob Buckland?
Perhaps Bob misundertstood you incorrect use of the term "meta data" and
interpreted it as meta tags?

The "meta data" that you refer to is IMPOSSIBLE to elimnate when using
Word for ANY function related to html.
This "meta data" is commonly referred to as Word bloat.
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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