Converting MS Word to Webpage

[webpager]

Hi all
I edit a magazine in MS Word and then it is printed and distributed. A copy of the same document is then put on our website for distant members to read. My problem is in the conversion from Word to Web Page. The formatting is all over the place and usually results in me having to format the whole thing again. Is there a way of direct transfer of the file or am I stuck with producing 2 versions?
Thanks
Keith

 

[ElEye]

Allegedly, FP2002 is better at handling this conversion than previous versions of FP.

I have not tried this specifically. But perhaps, if you're not yet upgraded, upgrading to FP2002 would help.

-Dave

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[Garridon]

A possible choice is to paste it in instead of converting it. But choose Paste Special>Normal.

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[dput]

You may want to consider placing the newsletter on your website in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. You would need to purchase a full copy of Acrobat, but then your formating will remain the same. Dan

 

[paulorlowski]

Here's my 4 choices.
1) Word is supposed to save as a web page. It doesn't always convert well (which you already know) and it places a huge amount of extra formatting codes in the html, so I usually avoid it.
2) Paste the text into notepad and then into Front Page and reformat it.
3) Use the Adobe Acrobat writer; your reader's have to take the extra time of opening a PDF file and have (or download the free) the acrobat reader.
4) Keep it as a Word doc. You reader's have to take the extra time of opening a DOC file.
Paul

 

[webpager]

Thanks for all the ideas folks. The newsletter is already available as a PDF but many of our members live in the third world where download speeds are very slow. So a small text file is the best answer. Pasting causes many problems with formatted tables - hence the re-formatting each time.
I think the problem lies with what MS Word considers to be a TXT file. An MS Word, TXT file still has a lot of formatting code left in it.
This is a problem for next year, so let`s get festive.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
Keith