using css in word

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I'm trying to set up a CSS template for a website designed in word. For some reason the word webpage won't view css code. Has anyone used css in word? How?
 
overlander said:
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I'm trying to set up a CSS template for a website designed in word. For some reason the word webpage won't view css code. Has anyone used css in word? How?
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I avoid, and would recommend you do same, no using Word for a html file
editor. It puts extra tags and data into the html which seems to be
Word-specific. To test your particular problem, I just tried opening a
html file which uses a css style sheet template just find (edited in
Mozilla, FrontPage, and occasionally an editor). Opening in Word 2003
completely changes the file with all kinds of tags and formatting that I
don't recognize or want. For example, it seems to have imported the
external CSS style sheet. I can't fathom why all this needs to be in
the HTML file when it works perfectly well being in the linked CSS file
and thus in only ONE place.

Word is a terrific authoring/writing tool, and it does a great job at
formatting text and graphics on paper. But it is not a good tool to use
for editing HTML files, much less an entire web site. Using Word for an
entire web site ... which I guess possible ... can only lead to great
frustration.

Recommendation: avoid using Microsoft Word for Web pages unless you are
absolutely forced to because you don't have any alternatives (and since
there are so many free/commercial alternatives available, that's not a
valid reason), or you have corporate rules which force you to use Word
as "standard" (which in this case you should consult with those who have
forced you to use this tool that's not fit-for-purpose).

I would recommend not spending much time figuring this out. Pick
another tool.

If you must keep working this, then I urge you to open up a browser
along side of Word (IE and/or Mozilla) and view the results of your work
including how it interacts with the CSS in the browser and not rely on
Word to display it. Consider what you are doing in Word as only source
code. View in the browser.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Schneider" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: using css in word

some reason the word webpage won't view css code. Has anyone used css in
word? How?
I avoid, and would recommend you do same, no using Word for a html file
editor. It puts extra tags and data into the html which seems to be
Word-specific. To test your particular problem, I just tried opening a
html file which uses a css style sheet template just find (edited in
Mozilla, FrontPage, and occasionally an editor). Opening in Word 2003
completely changes the file with all kinds of tags and formatting that I
don't recognize or want. For example, it seems to have imported the
external CSS style sheet. I can't fathom why all this needs to be in
the HTML file when it works perfectly well being in the linked CSS file
and thus in only ONE place.

Word is a terrific authoring/writing tool, and it does a great job at
formatting text and graphics on paper. But it is not a good tool to use
for editing HTML files, much less an entire web site. Using Word for an
entire web site ... which I guess possible ... can only lead to great
frustration.

Recommendation: avoid using Microsoft Word for Web pages unless you are
absolutely forced to because you don't have any alternatives (and since
there are so many free/commercial alternatives available, that's not a
valid reason), or you have corporate rules which force you to use Word
as "standard" (which in this case you should consult with those who have
forced you to use this tool that's not fit-for-purpose).

I would recommend not spending much time figuring this out. Pick
another tool.

If you must keep working this, then I urge you to open up a browser
along side of Word (IE and/or Mozilla) and view the results of your work
including how it interacts with the CSS in the browser and not rely on
Word to display it. Consider what you are doing in Word as only source
code. View in the browser.
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TOO ADD SUPPORT to Rob's suggstions?
Read below.


----- Original Message -----
From: "lostinspace" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: Converting .doc to .html
 
Hi Rob
I am trying to set up a web design course for Aussie farmers, and as everyone has word I thought it might be a cost effective way to make a website. But I tend to agree with you in that it does strange things to code.

You mentioned "and since there are so many free/commercial alternatives available" Can you please suggest some that I could make use of?

regards

Overlander
 
overlander said:
Hi Rob
I am trying to set up a web design course for Aussie farmers, and as everyone has word I thought it might be a cost effective way to make a website. But I tend to agree with you in that it does strange things to code.

You mentioned "and since there are so many free/commercial alternatives available" Can you please suggest some that I could make use of?

regards

Overlander
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A bit OT but I'll give a brief answer:

Since they have Word (which suggests they aren't against forking out
money for software), Microsoft Front Page is a terrific tool for "web
sites" that are static links to written pages. Learn to keep it simple
though and not become dependant on stuff which requires FP Extensions on
Server.

FrontPage has a good WYSIWYG editor, though some will argue that it
messes with HTML too much. It's 10x better than Word.

FrontPage is recommended. Teach how it is *more* than an editor.
Segregate differences between creating/maintaining web sites vs. web pages.

Teach basics of HTML via Notepad.

View results of work in Notepad and FP in the browser.

Mozilla includesa terrific WYSIWYG editor ... free.

I like jedit (Free) for editing HTML as it does syntax highlighting
which I've learned is a good teach technique since it rams home the
point out opening and closing tags.

There are thousands more products ... see
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/
 
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