The Save as Web Page-Filtered choice is basically unchanged in Word 2007, other than Word 2007 handles graphics a bit differently
than its predecessor versions and as Word 2007 uses more XML for layout and styling, the 'properties' portion of the HTML file tends
to have more 'stuff' in it. :
'Filtered' was the built in replacement starting in Word 2002 for the Word 2000 Export to HTML. The default formatting and content
of the filter and the 'Filtered' file type output is basically the same, using a combination of HTML, CSS and XML, for example.
Even without round tripping, the goal was to produce a web document that still looked like the layout in Word as far as possible.
'Filtered' never completely removed all of the formatting, it did remove some of the retained parts that made 'round trip' (reopen
in Word without losing any original format or content) possible and the standalone MSFilter.exe & MSFilter.dll set, from the Office
2000 HTML add-in will still work to post-process Word 2007 HTML to remove additional markup,
http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=209ADBEE-3FBD-482C-83B0-96FB79B74DED
but as Cindy mentioned, it was never the intent that the Word/Excel/Powerpoint Save/Publish as Web Page features would be on the par
of MS Office FrontPage (now MS Expression and MS SharePoint Designer). You can also end up with a page that looks very little like
what you had in Word when you strip out the formatting.
The settings that were in Tools=>Options=>General=>Web Options that can affect what is included are available in Word 2007 through
either:
Office Button=>Word Options=>Advanced=>General=>Web Options
or Office Button=>Save As=>Other Formats=>[Tools]=>Web Options
these can impact what is in the 'Filtered' file type.
Separately, the ability to link/import CSS Style sheets into Word is still available in Word 007 through the Templates and Add-ins
dialog (Alt, T, I). These primarily add styles that Word can recognize
(
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx
discusses which CSS attributes are understood by Word) and that can then be used to format a document open in Word.
Built-in, among Word 2007's 267 (I think <g>) styles are several that are intended to be for Web use, although they're primarily
carry forwards from even earlier versions of Word.
Normal(Web)
and the styles 'Heading 1' through 'Heading 6' come out as
<H1> <H2> etc in HTML
Saving a Word web document using some of those styles, with the [Web Options] set to 'Netscape 4' and 'disable features not
supported in the browser' will produce, unfortunately, a rather odd mix in Word 2007. While a paragraph of text will start off with
<p><font size=3...> It is then followed by
<span style='font=size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>, so that the IE View Text sizes of Largest to Smallest are still ignored, while
in FireFox you can choose View=>Page Style=>No Style
and the CSS formatting is turned off, but if you use MSFilter.exe on the Word produced file then you may be have the result you want
with relative sizes and also the ability to use the IE View setting sizes for text.
There is also the reverse approach, use CSS to create a Word document 'look alike'
http://cssnewbie.com/word-style-outline without
using Word
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How about the "Save As | Web Page, Filtered" option? Has this changed in
2007? I swear I was using MS Word to edit an htm - then did "Save As | Web
Page, Filtered" to prevent Word from embedding styles in the htm. I just
tried this today, and the embedded styles are there! Now, I can not apply a
css to the file! <<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
