Word outlook is not reflected in web

T

tsmy24

wysiwyg in Microsoft word is not what I see when I bring up the file
on the web.

How do I ensure that the web will reflect how my content is arranged
in my word file?

Thanks.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

What version of Word and OS?

What type of differences are you seeing?

Word is not a very good tool to create webpages anyhow, but View |
Online Layout ought to show you roughly what you will get when
converting to HTML.

Any kind of web problem is near-impossible to troubleshoot without a
link to the webpage in question.
 
T

tsmy24

What version of Word and OS?

What type of differences are you seeing?

Word is not a very good tool to create webpages anyhow, but View |
Online Layout ought to show you roughly what you will get when
converting to HTML.

Any kind of web problem is near-impossible to troubleshoot without a
link to the webpage in question.

Thanks fr reply.

My apple OS is Tiger 10.4.10
and word is v.X

Differences are font types & sizes, and pics are not in the right
location.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

My apple OS is Tiger 10.4.10
and word is v.X

Differences are font types & sizes, and pics are not in the right
location.
Is the web version different from what you see in Online Layout in Word?
Or are you complaining that after designing your page in Print Layout,
Online Layout makes changes to it?

where was a picture before, and where is it now? give an example.

what font were you using, and what font is it now?

With HTML, it can be difficult to do certain picture locations, and
certain fonts should not be used. It's hard to tell whether you are
running into the limits of HTML in Word, or Word is misbehaving, without
having that sort of detail.

By the way--re "ensuring" that the web shows what you want--one of the
reasons Word isn't a very good webpage creator is because it hides a lot
of the controls from you.
 
J

John McGhie

The short answer is "You can't".

The principle behind the web is that you have no control over how your text
will appear, that's up to the reader to set. The reader can change
everything to suit themselves, and they will.

However, you can study "Cascading Style Sheets". The more you know about
those, the more you will be able to control the formatting of your web pages
so that the appearance on the reader's screen is at least "pleasing", if not
the same as you are seeing.

If you study CSS2 and CSS3, you can get quite close. But you're talking
about putting in a couple of years of effort.

The HTML capabilities in Mac Word are very limited. Mac Word v.X has only
minimal support for HTML. Word 2004 is better, Word 2003 is quite good, and
Word 2007 is nearly perfect.

To get as close as you can, save the page as "Web Page", not "Web Page
(Filtered)." If you "Filter" Word's HTML, you are removing the code that
was ut there to make the web display match the Word display as closely as
possible. Any application that offers the ability to "fix up" or "remove"
Microsoft Office Specific formatting is contributing to your problem. It is
removing the code that is designed to get the Word appearance and the web
appearance as close as possible.

Somewhere along your course of study, you will come to the conclusion that
Microsoft Word is not the appropriate software for producing web pages with
that degree of control. Use Dream Weaver.

Soon, you will learn that each browser interprets HTML slightly differently.
To do a good job, you must write code to detect which browser each reader is
using to display your pages, and writing a different version of each of
your pages for each browser.

Eventually, you will accept that some things you can put in a Word document
simply cannot be represented on a web page. For example, headers, footers,
page numbers, and footnotes: these do not logically exist in web pages.

Hope this helps

wysiwyg in Microsoft word is not what I see when I bring up the file
on the web.

How do I ensure that the web will reflect how my content is arranged
in my word file?

Thanks.

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