You can open documents saved
by Microsoft Word as HTML files, and then use the Clean Up Word
HTML command to remove the extraneous HTML code generated by Word.
The Clean Up Word HTML command is available for documents saved
as HTML files by Word 97 or later.
The code that Dreamweaver removes
is primarily used by Word to format and display documents in Word
and is not needed to display the HTML file. Retain a copy of your
original Word (.doc) file as a backup, because you may not be able to
reopen the HTML document in Word once you’ve applied the Clean Up
Word HTML feature.
To clean up HTML or XHTML that was not
generated by Microsoft Word, use the Cleanup HTML command.
Save your Microsoft Word document as an HTML file.
Note: In Windows, close the file in Word to avoid a sharing
violation.
Open the HTML file in Dreamweaver.
To view the HTML code generated by Word, switch to Code
view (View > Code).
Select Commands > Clean Up Word HTML.
Note: If Dreamweaver is unable to determine
which version of Word was used to save the file, select the correct
version from the pop‑up menu.
Select (or deselect) options for the cleanup. The preferences
you enter are saved as default cleanup settings.
Dreamweaver applies the cleanup
settings to the HTML document and a log of the changes appears (unless
you deselected that option in the dialog box).
Remove All Word Specific
Markup
Removes all Microsoft Word-specific
HTML, including XML from HTMLtags, Word custom
meta data and link tags in the head of the document, Word XML markup,
conditional tags and their contents, and empty paragraphs and margins
from styles. You can select each of these options individually using
the Detailed tab.
Clean Up CSS
Removes all Word-specific CSS, including inline CSS styles
when possible (where the parent style has the same style properties),
style attributes beginning with “mso,” non-CSS style declarations,
CSS style attributes from tables, and all unused style definitions
from the head. You can further customize this option using the Detailed
tab.
Clean Up <font> Tags
Removes
HTML tags, converting the default body text to size 2 HTML text.
Fix Invalidly Nested Tags
Removes the font markup tags inserted by Word outside
the paragraph and heading (block-level) tags.
Set Background Color
Allows
you to enter a hexadecimal value to set the background color of
your document. If you do not set a background color, your Word HTML
page will have a gray background. The default hexadecimal value
is white.
Apply Source Formatting
Applies
the source formatting options you specify in HTML Format preferences
and SourceFormat.txt to the document.
Show Log On Completion
Displays
an alert box with details about the changes made to the document
as soon as the cleanup is finished.
Click OK, or click the Detailed tab if you want to further
customize the Remove All Word Specific Markup and Clean Up CSS options,
and then click OK.
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