Word has taken over htm documents

[Guest]

Hello
I have 1000 htm files that are "corrupted" by word. Is there any possibility
to convert them back to normal frontpage htm (without xml)?
I can open them and save again, but...
thanks
Laura

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

a little known trick to convert word docs into something reasonably close to
valid HTML is to open FrontPage, get a page in design view, then with
windows explorer opened above/ on top of FrontPage, click a word doc and
drag it over the clean page in design view and drop it onto the page. it'll
convert it into RTF and write it's contents into the page.

I think a more important thing is to find out why it's doing this. i.e. how
did word end up doing this to a thousand html files, and how can you prevent
the occurrence again.

HTH
Chris

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[Guest]

Hi,

Thanks for your advice. It works ok but takes some time to go trough
approximately 12 000 htm files.
We use Windows search to get all documents on same view. Then we go though
the documents and look for icons that have word logo on them. One good thing
in drag-and-drop operation seems that it saves the document to same location
of from where it was dragged.
I wonder if there is any way to change the type of those documents to
something other than "HTML Document"?
Then we could easily sort the list by type.

If there was some kind of conversion script, it would take much less time to
solve this issue.

To Your question about why this is happening I could answer something like
this:
- Lots of people are modifying these documents
- People don't read instructions, which clearly denys to use MS Word for
editting the documents
- Some people might read instructions, but don't care. And maybe they don't
have any other html-editor
.... I could continue this list much further, but I think you got the point
why this is happenig.
So in my opinion, there is no nice or way to prevent this happening.
Thanks
Laura