Web Formatting in XP?

[Chris]

I'm need some assistance with converting existing XP Word
documents for viewing as HTML via the web. Most of the
original text formatting is retained (i.e. font, pitch,
underling, italics, bold, etc.).

However, I'm having problems in the following 4 areas:

Specifically,
(1) text aligned via tabs;
(2) hanging indents in bullet lists;
(3) extra spacing between lines for "center aligned"
paragraphs;
(4) alignment/word wrap for my right margins.

Viewing in "web layout" doesn't show exactly as viewed
through my web browser (IE 6). I've played around by
selecting the text, clicking on "Table" and converting
text to table. This seems to work, but somewhat time
consuming.

Any recommendations on the functionality, tools, etc. in
Word XP for streamling the HTML conversion?

Thanks from a Word XP Newbie!!

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Chris

HTML doesn't have the sophisticated layout opportunities of Word. So you'll never get an HTML page to look exactly like a
carefully-laid out Word page.

Furthermore, different web browsers will display your HTML in different ways. You can only have one version of Internet Explorer on
your machine, but you can try several versions of Netscape, Mozilla or other web browsers to see the effects. Word's web view mimics
Internet Explorer, but as you've seen, it doesn't do that precisely.

Your list of specific problems is common, and there's not much you'll be able to do about some of these. Most people use tables to
lay out text for web pages: avoid tabs completely.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi all,

Shauna Kelly wrote:
[..]

Your list of specific problems is common, and there's not much you'll
be able to do about some of these. Most people use tables to lay out
text for web pages: avoid tabs completely.

I guess the modern way would be to use DIV-tags and CSS, but I don't
know how to do that with Word ...

2cents
..bob
...Word-MVP