[Sesquipedalian Sam]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:39:06 +0100, "Yves Dhondt"
wrote:


Just use the 'Other Formats' option from the 'Save As' menu in Word and
select 'Webpage, Filtered', as your type. That should keep things like bold,
italics, ...

When I did that, I got a new document with filetype .htm that looks
like the original .docx document. I don't see any html markup.

What I need is a text document with html markup that I can paste into
the Craigslist ad.

Is there a way to get the markup?

[Yves Dhondt]

Open the .htm file from within Notepad or Wordpad, that should give you the
html source. Alternatively, open the htm file in your favourite browser and
look for the 'Show source' function that almost every browser has.

Yves

"Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:39:06 +0100, "Yves Dhondt"
wrote:


Just use the 'Other Formats' option from the 'Save As' menu in Word and
select 'Webpage, Filtered', as your type. That should keep things like
bold,
italics, ...

When I did that, I got a new document with filetype .htm that looks
like the original .docx document. I don't see any html markup.

What I need is a text document with html markup that I can paste into
the Craigslist ad.

Is there a way to get the markup?

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:24:20 +0100, "Yves Dhondt"
wrote:

Open the .htm file from within Notepad or Wordpad, that should give you the
html source. Alternatively, open the htm file in your favourite browser and
look for the 'Show source' function that almost every browser has.

OK. That worked, sort of. The source code has a lot of stuff in there.
After it was processed by Craig's List, it mostly looked good. Some of
the bulleted lists were a little off.

There are a lot of websites selling utilities to "clean up" the html
output from Word. The general feeling seems to be that Word does not
get html and really doesn't care. They want you to buy Front Page.

I found a website that does the conversion online:

http://word2cleanhtml.com/

I tried the same document there. It came out a lot simpler and the
formatted ad after processing by Craig's List looked a lot better.

[Yves Dhondt]

If you save as "Web Page, Filtered" the resulting code is cleaned up pretty
good. But you have to realize that Word was never made to create webpages in
the first place, there exist other programs for that.

FrontPage doesn't exist anymore, so it seems unlikely that they want you to
buy it. FrontPage has been replaced by several other tools from Microsoft
depending on what you want to do. For creating ordinary webpages, try Visual
Web Developer
(http://www.microsoft.com/express/dow...Web-Developer). It
is a free website creator from Microsoft. The only limitation is that you
can't use it for commercial purposes.

Yves

"Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:24:20 +0100, "Yves Dhondt"
wrote:

Open the .htm file from within Notepad or Wordpad, that should give you
the
html source. Alternatively, open the htm file in your favourite browser
and
look for the 'Show source' function that almost every browser has.

OK. That worked, sort of. The source code has a lot of stuff in there.
After it was processed by Craig's List, it mostly looked good. Some of
the bulleted lists were a little off.

There are a lot of websites selling utilities to "clean up" the html
output from Word. The general feeling seems to be that Word does not
get html and really doesn't care. They want you to buy Front Page.

I found a website that does the conversion online:

http://word2cleanhtml.com/

I tried the same document there. It came out a lot simpler and the
formatted ad after processing by Craig's List looked a lot better.