Check also http://tim.mackey.ie/CleanWordHTMLUsingRegularExpressions.aspx for regular expressions to do this.
On 2/15/06, Hope Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Find And Replace feature in Dreamweaver can also be a huge time saver.Other programs probably have this same feature. For
Of Zulema
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:00 PM
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Samuel/Ted/Jay,
Wow! I will remember all this for the next time, since I do a lot of
Word-to-HTML converting.
The crazy thing about this one particular Word doc
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From: Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WSG] just sharing the frustration
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Give you writers a very quick lesson in standards. They apply
to writing in
Word just as much as the web. Don't assume they know about
headers,
unordered lists, ordered
Hope Stewart wrote:
The Find And Replace feature in Dreamweaver can also be a huge time saver.
Particularly if you're versed in regular expressions...quick and easy
way to strip out all the annoying style etc attributes that Word and co
like to stick into their HTML, e.g.
Find: td[^]*
There goes Patrick showing off his regular expression prowess again.
Ted
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On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:01 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] just sharing
The easiest way to use HTMLTidy is from within the Firefox browser.
Once installed have a look at the Extensions you can download to help
with Web Design. I always add the following extensions:
HTML Validator
TAW3 - Test de Accesibilidad Web
View formatted source
View Rendered Source Chart
Hello fellow ponies,
I just wanted to share my frustration with having to work late on valentine's
day contextualizing copy from a Word doc into html with nested lists galore[1].
Took me about five hours and I might have missed a few.
[1]
Depending on which version of word your running (I'm on 2003) you can
save a word document as web page, filtered (this then filters out most
of the word specific HTML), I'm sure a few smart find and replaces could
then clean up/add any code that is not needed or missing.
Otherwise you could
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Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:45 PM
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Subject: [WSG] just sharing the frustration
Hello fellow ponies,
I just wanted to share my frustration with having to work late on
valentine's
day contextualizing copy from a Word doc into html
Ted Drake wrote:
Here's a helpful hint on doing this crap.
Use htmlTidy, while I haven't used this, I've heard it's really good.
Normally, what I do is create a new basic html page in dreamweaver.
I go to the design view and paste the content into the screen.
I then switch to code view and run
Samuel/Ted/Jay,
Wow! I will remember all this for the next time, since I do a lot of
Word-to-HTML converting.
The crazy thing about this one particular Word doc was that it wasn't in
formatted bulleted lists because it was copy extracted from a PDF we got
from the client as it seems they
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