[Web4lib] word/html converter

Mike Taylor mike at miketaylor.org.uk
Mon Jul 10 17:17:10 EDT 2006


Sarah Smith writes:
 > We have a word doc with text boxes galore that make up our newsletter.
 > We are able to save the Word doc as html up to about 2 pages worth. Past
 > two pages, things start to get jumbled up. I've looked into MS Publisher
 > and Adobe Acrobat and neither of those seems to be a viable option. Deal
 > is we need a print version and an html version. The person creating it
 > knows Word but not html, so doing an html version first is not an option
 > at this point. We are willing to pay money for a miraculous converter
 > and I have been assured "other libraries do it." Anyone have any tips?
 > TIA,

Have you tried using OpenOffice?  It's a free office suite that can
read MS-Word files and write HTML; it may (or may not) do a better job
of HTML export and MS-Word does.  http://openoffice.org/

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