FP2003 and cleanup code???

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gully

Hi,

We currently use FrontPage 2000 for our intranet editor. We usually receive
many MS Word 2000 documents that need to be converted to webpages. When we
copy the information from MS Word into FrontPage 2000, we end up with alot
of coding (class="MsoBodyText", class="MsoBodyNormal" etc, etc) we don't
want. I assume this is XML markup??. To get around this problem, we have
been copying the information from MS Word to Wordpad and then to Frontpage
2000. It is not a perfect solution, but it is much better than trying to
clean the code of the excess markup language.

Does FrontPage 2003 work the same way?

Jerry
 
Hi Gully,

Actually there is a clean up tool available to remove the Word Doc
roundtriping code. FP3 has it built in intrinsically.
 
Hi Mike

I had tried downloading the filter from the MS website - "MS Office 2000
HTML Filter 2.0" but did not find that it worked that great. Is that the
clean up tool that you mean??

gully
 
Gully,

FrontPage 2003 has the ability to remove Word's HTML that it uses to
round-trip the document back into Word. What's left after using this
feature is simply the CSS styles that Word added.

Many people will find this feature hard to find because of the way that
FrontPage 2003 is designed to work. There are actually two methods of
optimizing HTML. One is when publishing (and removing Word code is not
present here) and the other is on the Tools menu when the document is open.
Because a Word document saved as HTML will open in Word by default if you
double-click it in FrontPage, many users won't find the feature.

You have to right-click the file and choose to open it in FrontPage, or you
can configure FrontPage so that Office docs aren't opened in the program
that created them. After the file is open, you can click on Tools, Optimize
HTML and choose to remove the Word code. It cleans up the doc very well.

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what a great answer.
now if i could only hang on a little longer for Amazon to ship your book ;-)
 
Jim,

Thanks for your response. I think we are going to upgrade our version of FP.
We have one person who still has Word 97 on her computer. This way she can
open the Word docs sent to her and copy directly into FP 2000 without
worrying about the extra coding. :)

gully
 
Jerry -

You might want to take a look at "Edit > Paste Special" when you paste,
which does the same thing as cutting from MS Word, pasting in Wordpad, and
then pasting into Frontpage.
 
first place I tried and I bit the bullet. there are other reasons I hate
Amazon besides the price of certain things, but I guess too apathetic to
_really_ care. ;-)
 
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