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Web designers here? Help with Word to HTML?

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I am studying Expression web 3 and have a book to go with, Sam's Expression Web 3 in 24 hours.
I am at the part where they talk about the mess word makes when you just raw import it to the design page, it's easy to see the HTML there is a mess. They talk about manually changing everything to standard HTML and such and there are a number of tools to do that.
What I would like is some software, preferably free that makes clean HTML from Word, in my case word 2000 and 2003.
I tried some freebies online downloads and the output seems as bad as the original word when imported. Anything out there that actually works? Thanks. Don.

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feed it to a pretty-printer after using Word to convert?

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tried openoffice.org? it reads and writes Word and probly exports to HTML.

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
feed it to a pretty-printer after using Word to convert?
Gosh, never thought of that one.

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p.s., guitar thread: Thread 126345

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
tried openoffice.org? it reads and writes Word and probly exports to HTML.
I have both and noticed OO seems to do a better job than Word. I haven't tried cross converting first. I'll give that a try. In the meantime, anyone know of decent software that automates this?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
I have both and noticed OO seems to do a better job than Word. I haven't tried cross converting first. I'll give that a try. In the meantime, anyone know of decent software that automates this?
Try: http://word2cleanhtml.com

You'd be better off not using Word at all though. It'd be much easier to use a proper HTML editor to write the code for your site:

http://www.online-html-editor.org/

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Try: http://word2cleanhtml.com

You'd be better off not using Word at all though. It'd be much easier to use a proper HTML editor to write the code for your site:

http://www.online-html-editor.org/
Yes, it sure would be better to avoid the middle man and go directly to HTML, but a lot of my wife's docs are in other formats and maybe it is better to re-type in the editor but it would be nice to convert. I went to your word2 site and tried a word input but when I convert, I don't see the html, maybe I am not understanding what is going on. I thought there was a view page where you could see the resultant html. Thanks for your input.