Convert Word Documents


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  Step 1:  Do a quick change

If you are familiar with the formatting in Word documents, you have a head start. As an experiment, open any Word document that includes your favorite formatting features and save it as an HTML document, with the extension .htm.
  Step 2:  See what you get

Close that document. Now launch your browser and open that file to see what it looks like as a Web file. Many features should be intact – such as bullets, centering, italics, bold, and underlining. But the spacing and the fonts are probably different. HTML ignores spaces. If you have two carriage returns between paragraphs in Word, HTML will reduce that to one. If you put two spaces after a period or numerous spaces for some aesthetic purpose, HTML will reduce it to a single space.
  Step 3:  Experiment with the tool bar

Open a Report
Reopen that document Word and experiment with the features in the tool bar. Many of them work just the same for HTML documents as for Word documents.
  Step 4:  Compose Web pages directly

Open a Report
Open a new page, save it has HTML to get the HTML toolbar, and create directly in that format. Once you get used to the features, you may find it just as easy to use as normal Word, and then you don't have to go through conversion.