what is the best way to format text which is going to be copied into an program which will convert it to html?

Question

Basically I'm creating a text and table document in word and then copying & pasting it into another program creating a knowledge base. This program is a web based program and converts the word document into html formatting which the coding looks horrible when you look at it. I need an easier way to do this as I'm spending way too much time creating the document in word (and has to be created in word b/c it's saved in our document management program) and then I'm spending way too much time having to clean up the formatting of the document when I copy and paste it over to the web base program. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you have Dreamweaver or Frontpage, make your text and tables in that program and save as html (Dreamweaver preferred because it writes really clean code, but Frontpage might do the trick). After you are done, copy/paste from this to your word document from the "design" view (not code/html view). This should work as you could easily edit the word document without having to "clean" it like the html clean up.

Also, if you have Dreamweaver, it has a feature that automatically cleans word's html. In Dreamweaver

Commands > Clean Up Word HTML

Then choose the version of word you html'd from.

Hope that helps and best!

Answer 2

You can download "Cute PDF" a freebie that will convert your word document into the PDF format.
Anyone with acrobat reader will be able to read the document.

Answer 3

use notepad