"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Howie,

One of the features that Word 97 has is that you can type HTML into the document itself (not the source code view) then apply the
Web Normal style to it and that HTML code will 'melt' into the HTML source code level. Can't even come close in later versions of
Word

Another is the ability to right click on a picture in a Word web page in Word 97 and save the graphic separately. You can still do
that with later versions of Word by extracting the graphics from Explorer after previewing or saving as a web page.

Word 97 has very limited table and color support (but then compared to today's .doc files, so did Word g but it does save HTML
(albeit 'old' HTML g) rather than XML.

If you're using Adobe InDesign & GoLive 6, then they can handle the newer Word formats through the clipboard or file import, but if
you have an up to date Web authoring tool then adding Word to the mix other than as a source to copy from into another app for a
public website, such as yours, may not be a first choice. MS Office Frontpage (soon to be replaced by new product lines) or even MS
Office Publisher may be better choices in the 'not really web page editors' category, but with a number of free and low cost web
page design alternatives available...

You may want to also check with the folks in the Indesign/GoLive forums at http://adobe.com on working with MS Word 2000 thru 2003
file formats in those products.

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"HK" wrote in message ...

I save my Word97 HTM file into the input folder for Adobe GoLive CS.
GoLive accepts the Word97 htm file. And in addition, within GoLive, I can
change links made in Word97 HTM and point to other HTMs created in Word97 or
other html files that are compatable. Will I lose this flexabliblity in
2003. I find Word97 compatable and flexable with Adobe GoLiveCS and I need
this functionality. I'm concerned that Word 2003 might not respond as GoLive
expects. Maybe a look at my web site "levittownbristolkiwanis.com" might
help in understanding my concern.

Howie
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Thanks Bob,

This has been a big help.

I only use Word97 to enter text. I use Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady for
all my graphics work. But Photoshop and ImageReady don't handle text as well
as Word 97. Word 97 also has outstanding backgrounds for text display on web
pages. Word's table features also work quite well for newspaper columns.
But I'll check out FrontPage and Publisher as you suggested. I just thought
a word processor was better for word processing. Most web pages look and
feal the same. The fonts are usually the same and not very good. A lot of
them look like yesterdays newspaper. Such a shame. The web has a lot more
potential than that. We have enough newspapers. We need something pleasant
to look at. But maybe that's just me.
Thanks again,
Howie