Converting from Word or WordPerfect to HTML

Stacy Pober Spober at manhattan.edu
Thu Feb 11 22:36:35 EST 1999


I've been given some Word and WordPerfect documents to put on the 
library's web pages, and I've found that the WordPerfect and other 
conversion programs I have seem to do a pretty wretched job of converting 
into HTML.  The odd program-specific codes were to be expected, given past 
performance, but what threw me was that none of the programs I tried 
(Word, WordPerfect, or Adobe PageMill) seemed to put in the codes for 
underlined text.  I went back and added all the <u> </u> codes by hand 
which was very tedious.

Can anyone recommend a conversion program that does a smoother job of 
converting from the most common word processing formats into HTML?  Even 
if they only saved me the need to add text enhancements like boldface, 
italic, and underline codes, they'd be a time saver.  The basic document 
structures in this case were pretty simple, but there was a lot of 
emphasized text.     
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Stacy Pober                   mailto: spober at manhattan.edu
Information Alchemist         http://www.manhattan.edu/library/
Manhattan College Libraries   Voice: 718-862-7166
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