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Can I Publish Web Pages from Word ?
I'm trying to help someone do a simple web page for their family.
1 - Will MS Word create a web page? 2 - Will MS Word publish the web page to a web server or must you use an ftp program? 3 - If you must use an ftp program... are their any free ones around? 4 - Are there any free HTML editors out there that I should suggest? thanks for any help. |
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From: "Will" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: Can I Publish Web Pages from Word ? I'm trying to help someone do a simple web page for their family. 1 - Will MS Word create a web page? 2 - Will MS Word publish the web page to a web server or must you use an ftp program? 3 - If you must use an ftp program... are their any free ones around? 4 - Are there any free HTML editors out there that I should suggest? thanks for any help. My, My! So many questions :-)) Word will create web pages, however it was never intended with that sole purpose in mind. Rather, it was intened to be a transport medium to assure that HTML pages created from Word DOC's could be returned to their original form as DOC's. There are many threads discussing using of Word to create web pages in the archive for both this forum and "microsoft.public.word.web.authoring. http://groups.google.com/ just copy in the NG name and browse There's a thread this morning in microsoft.public.word.web.authoring which expalins this method. EITHER is the answer. There are MANY free FTP software's across the internet? Have you tried google? http://www.google.com/search?biw=982...=Google+Search 1st Page 2000 from Eversoft is free and a very good html editor http://www.evrsoft.com/ There are more. Please search google |
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To add to what lostinspace has said, if your friend has personal Web space
available through his/her ISP, almost certainly the ISP offers both FTP software (I got WS_FTP from EarthLink--not terribly intuitive, but it works well) and some sort of simple Web authoring tool (Trellix is a popular one). This should probably be the first thing you investigate. Beyond that, it *is* possible to create Web pages in Word and upload them with FPT software--I did it for a while before becoming disgusted and upgrading to FrontPage--but, as lostinspace says, Word's HMTL editor was never really intended for creating full-fledged Web sites. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Will" wrote in message news I'm trying to help someone do a simple web page for their family. 1 - Will MS Word create a web page? 2 - Will MS Word publish the web page to a web server or must you use an ftp program? 3 - If you must use an ftp program... are their any free ones around? 4 - Are there any free HTML editors out there that I should suggest? thanks for any help. |
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Dear lostinspace,
Google gave us too much information. We were hoping someone would share the results of their prior research with us. We will check out the news groups and the editor you suggested. thanks, Will "lostinspace" wrote in message . .. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:52 AM Subject: Can I Publish Web Pages from Word ? I'm trying to help someone do a simple web page for their family. 1 - Will MS Word create a web page? 2 - Will MS Word publish the web page to a web server or must you use an ftp program? 3 - If you must use an ftp program... are their any free ones around? 4 - Are there any free HTML editors out there that I should suggest? thanks for any help. My, My! So many questions :-)) Word will create web pages, however it was never intended with that sole purpose in mind. Rather, it was intened to be a transport medium to assure that HTML pages created from Word DOC's could be returned to their original form as DOC's. There are many threads discussing using of Word to create web pages in the archive for both this forum and "microsoft.public.word.web.authoring. http://groups.google.com/ just copy in the NG name and browse There's a thread this morning in microsoft.public.word.web.authoring which expalins this method. EITHER is the answer. There are MANY free FTP software's across the internet? Have you tried google? http://www.google.com/search?biw=982...=Google+Search 1st Page 2000 from Eversoft is free and a very good html editor http://www.evrsoft.com/ There are more. Please search google |
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Hi Will,
To add to the previous answers. 1 is yes, 2 is yes if the ISP/host supports either FrontpageServer Extensions or MS Sharepoint Services. If you use Word to create the web page, basically you create a document as you normally would then save it first as a .doc file (so you have the original to edit later) then as File=Save As=Web Page-Filtered if your intent is for it to be browsed rather than reused by another Word user within Word. A disadvantage is that Word, as was mentioned, creates web documents that Word can restore as .DOC files rather than the smallest page code available. Here's an interesting comparison page of Word vs a free HTML editor like the one mentioned might produce. http://www.mtsu.edu/~sdennis/usabili...04_MSOcode.htm Part of the equation is how much learning do you want to do on creating web pages and how is the web page to be used. ========= "Will" wrote in message news I'm trying to help someone do a simple web page for their family. 1 - Will MS Word create a web page? 2 - Will MS Word publish the web page to a web server or must you use an ftp program? 3 - If you must use an ftp program... are their any free ones around? 4 - Are there any free HTML editors out there that I should suggest? thanks for any help. -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx |
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Will shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.docmanagement:
I'm trying to help someone do a simple web page for their family. 1 - Will MS Word create a web page? Yes, and the HTML code will be very bulky and messy. You *will* get comments from more seasoned visitors AND it's *possible* there will be compatibility issues with alternative browsers if you use any "special" formatting. 2 - Will MS Word publish the web page to a web server No, it will not. or must you use an ftp program? Yes, you must. 3 - If you must use an ftp program... are their any free ones around? Yes there are. WS_FTP has been around since I made my first website way back in 1995. Google should be able to provide you with alternatives. 4 - Are there any free HTML editors out there that I should suggest? Yes. Try nvu and let me know what you think of it. http://www.nvu.com thanks for any help. You're welcome. -- Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.17.5.7 If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to Report Bugs Effectively http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no" as the answer. http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoyn...-with-yes-or-n o-answers.html |
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