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Sanely Moving from Word to the Web?
FooAtWFU asks: "I have a job for a web site (no link for you, Slashdot hordes!). A lot of it is systems administration and development, but I have to routinely post content which comes from a myriad of other sources. Usually they are from academic users, come in Word format, and ultimately need to be posted in HTML. The problem is that Word has all sorts of tricks up its sleeve to throw off the font, layout, size, and so forth. To achieve any sort of visual consistency on the site these various formatting tags all need to be scrubbed, but even using other office suites with better HTML export (OpenOffice.Org) to do the dirty work, it's often easier to recreate the formatting by hand from a plain-text version than it is to clean up a sea of messy tags. Does anyone have any advice (or magical tools) to help me deal with this sort of tedious cleanup?"
Sounds like a job for Mrs FooAtWFU
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
You might consider a pack of monkeys and typewriters. They can ultimately reproduce Shakespeare so maybe, maybe they might be ablt to properly reformat the HTML gibberish Word produces.
Of course, you could also outsource to India but that's unethical to both the monkeys and the Americon economy.
..."Intern"
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
hello. how are you?
I'm fine thank you
Which only goes to show:
There is NO WAY the slashdot effect can be avoided. Resistance is futile...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I'm fine too.
I'm glad we have these little discussions. It makes my day so much more interesting.
Let's do lunch.
The OP is correct: 1) Open Dreamweaver. 2) Commands > Clean Up Word HTML... 3) Rejoice
I've got a table at Elaine's. Can you make it?
Jesus, tell me about it. I get 30kb attachments merely saying "Got your email, thanks!" with "thanks" done up in some odd curly red font and a six-line sig, not to mention the twenty-seven 8x10 colored glossy JPG attachments with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one...
I can understand why you would hunt this information down for your own demented purient interest, but why did you have to post it?
Didn't he clearly state that he didn't want to be slashdotted? This just seems like a perfect opportunity for the application of a little common sense along with just a hint of courtesy.
I hate you and your kind. Yes, hate. :)
You think that's bad?
I was given 61 screenshots (blithely dubbed "program requirements"), each its own Word document. Each containing only a (weirdly scaled) picture, of course.
61 Word documents.
The Internet is full. Go away.
See, if we were really elite, we would all automatically know how to do stuff like this with our favorite editor. There would be no Ask Slashdot. There's a reason why emacs is one of the most popular editors around and it's because it saves us from having to do this kind of repetative text work that should be done autonomously.
:)
But we're not elite and I'm now going to learn how to do macros in emacs
Because it isn't a "real memo" unless it is printed on company letterhead, formatted according to the company's style guide.
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But that's not what I came here to tell you about.
I came to talk about the draft.
in Dreamweaver, there's a command "Clean up MS Word HTML".
You mean the menu option that says 'Delete All'?
You must be new here.
Read my blog.
"... a perfect opportunity for the application of a little common sense..."
What is this "common sense" of which you speak? Where may I download it from?
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You get specs? And you're complaining?