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[kmusser]

Open a 2 page MS Word document and save as HTML
Open HTML in Dreamweaver
Choose "Clean Up Word HTML" option
Dreamweaver makes 1,590 corrections to Word's HTML

Comments

[chuck-lw.livejournal.com]

Does Dreamweaver represent you in court when Microsoft sues you for hurting their feelings?:-P

[wylddelirium.livejournal.com]

Yay, Tuesdays!

[cellymcfae.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I used to have to clean that crap up manually! I didn't have Dreamweaver. :^( I'm jealous of your cool toys. *g*

[kmusser]

me too, that why I'm especially appreciative :-)

[valancy17.livejournal.com]

verily, Word HTML sucks.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Imagine my shock and horror.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Given that MSIE isn't standards-compliant, who's surprised?

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

And you're using Word why?

[kmusser]

I often am given stuff in Word documents - notice that the first thing I did was get it out of Word. If I was doing the writing I would have started in Dreamweaver in the first place.

[punkwalrus.livejournal.com]

There used to be a perl script that did this, too. I think it's in one of these links:

http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/word.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/