Anyone explain this?

[Dave]

I have a web page which I wrote some years ago. I wanted to modify it,
so I tried opening it in Word. Got a message saying, in effect, it's
either in use or not a valid Word file.

Swore, tried Safari and that loaded the web page and displayed it with
no trouble. Tried Word, same problem. Tried TextEdit - no problem, but
that wouldn't let me view it as source, just the html.

Tried Word again, telling this was a text file. Bingo! There was my file
in source format.

So, what's it objecting to, I wonder.

Office 2004 with latest updates, MacBook with 2gb ram and OS 10.4.10.
Web page is 152Kb, so would it just be the size?

Cheers,

Dave

 

[litttle.creature.inc]

Hiya,
I have enabled in word preferences >general>confirm conversion at
open. This allows word to have a guess what this the file I want to
open is. Basically what word was trying you to say - I do not know
what this file is (what I'm supposed to do whith it) or it might have
been in use by other application. If I open saved html or htm file in
Word with my confirm conversion at open enabled and say text it
reveals the code itsel. Then I can make a can do save as and save for
example as txt and them just change the extension to html in finder.
HTML is nothing more than text.

However as CyberTaz indicated WORD save as HTML is something special.
If you save plain text as html in word it will add soooooo much of
rubbish. And it cannot even be noted as html.

BTW what is the extension of your file? html,htm,php, asp?

If I'm refering to something else, post back with more info.

 

[Dave]

Unfortunately you leave out at least one key piece of information - What
program did you use to "write" the web page? Further, has it been modified
in any way since it was first created?

Well, it's several years since I wrote this web page, and I can't really
remember. I was working on a PC (if you'll pardon my language) at the
time, so I may well have used Notepad. Almost certainly a plain text
editor so as to keep the html 'clean'. And I probably have changed a few
things in it since then - always treating it as text.

BTW what is the extension of your file? html,htm,php, asp?

The file extension is htm. Point is that this is one of a whole bunch of
web pages I created in the same way at the same time. Word is happy to
open the rest of them, and I just have to tell it to View as Source
before I edit it. And Word recognises that this is a HTML file - that's
what it offers when I have confirm conversion on.

There must be some error somewhere in the page that it's baulking at.
Oh, well. Be quite a job to find it, I suppose.

Thanks anyway,

Dave