Word HTML in Dreamweaver

My client gives me tons of word documents. Word will save as html. But when
imported into Dreamweaver, it's a nightmare of code. You can clean it up
somewhat with Commands/Clean Up Word HTML, which does a lot of good, BUT I
am left with piles of elaborate <span> tags and tables that refuse to have
their widths cleared. (I select the table and choose Modify Table/Clear cell
widths - and nothing happens). Anyone know some great techniques? So far
it's faster to cut and paste and recreate the page than to slog through the
reformatting of the word html document.

Cuprik wrote:

My client gives me tons of word documents. Word will save as html. But when
imported into Dreamweaver, it's a nightmare of code. You can clean it up
somewhat with Commands/Clean Up Word HTML, which does a lot of good, BUT I
am left with piles of elaborate <span> tags and tables that refuse to have
their widths cleared. (I select the table and choose Modify Table/Clear cell
widths - and nothing happens). Anyone know some great techniques? So far
it's faster to cut and paste and recreate the page than to slog through the
reformatting of the word html document.

Usually, you should save the Word doc "as html" or "for th web" or
whatever it says. Then open in DW and clean out. But my experience is
also that is leaves a lot to be desired.

Do this, then: Copy the content of the Word doc. Paste in WordPad (PC)
or TextEdit (Mac) and save as "plain text" (ACII). Then copy that and
paste into a DW doc (the page you're doing). All the formatting will
thereby be lost and you'll have a the actual text only. However, some
junk might still remain, e.g. "wrong" quotes, etc.

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Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote:

Usually, you should save the Word doc "as html" or "for th web" or
whatever it says. Then open in DW and clean out. But my experience is
also that is leaves a lot to be desired.

Do this, then: Copy the content of the Word doc. Paste in WordPad (PC)
or TextEdit (Mac) and save as "plain text" (ACII). Then copy that and
paste into a DW doc (the page you're doing). All the formatting will
thereby be lost and you'll have a the actual text only. However, some
junk might still remain, e.g. "wrong" quotes, etc.

PS: I think there's a way to save the Word doc "as text only" or
something that will clear out all formatting. If you can make your
client do this, you'll probably save time.

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Do this, then: Copy the content of the Word doc. Paste in WordPad (PC)

or TextEdit (Mac) and save as "plain text" (ACII).

No too many steps. I copy the word text and then switch to DW and then I
select Edit>>Paste Text

The same effect as using WordPad and it's only 1 step.
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DMX2004/PC can open a Word document directly (if it's not >150K, I believe),
by using FILE | Import > Word Document. It does a not too bad job of
sorting things out, and while the HTML is mighty clean, the text content is
not - it will need careful review to eliminate unwanted entity codes and
spacing issues.

Have you tried this?

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"Cuprik" <webforumuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

My client gives me tons of word documents. Word will save as html. But
when
imported into Dreamweaver, it's a nightmare of code. You can clean it up
somewhat with Commands/Clean Up Word HTML, which does a lot of good, BUT I
am left with piles of elaborate <span> tags and tables that refuse to have
their widths cleared. (I select the table and choose Modify Table/Clear
cell
widths - and nothing happens). Anyone know some great techniques? So far
it's faster to cut and paste and recreate the page than to slog through
the
reformatting of the word html document.

Chip off the Ol'Proc wrote:

No too many steps. I copy the word text and then switch to DW and then I
select Edit>>Paste Text

The same effect as using WordPad and it's only 1 step.

Didn't even know about that one.
Surely better.

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