wug826

MIT Word User Group, 8.26.97

Ruth Levitsky, x3399

levitsky@mit.edu, this page is located at http://mit.edu/levitsky/www/wug826.html

How to Turn a Word Document into a Web Document

What is a Web Document

Web documents use hypertext markup language (HTML). HTML codes provide the formatting for web documents. You can see what html looks like by selecting View, Document Source in your web browser.

Word 7 has a "save as html" option

Important HTML Tags to Know for limitations of converting tools

See http://www.microsoft.com/word/productinfo/tips/97/default.htm

The Basic Structure of an HTML Document

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>

How many untitled documents are on the web?

</TITLE>

<BODY>

How to break a line <br>

How to make a paragraph <p>

</BODY

</HTML>

Ways to Use Word To Make a Web Document

Use File, Save As HTML (for Word 7)

Use the Internet Assistant (for version 6)

Download the software from http://www.microsoft.com/word/internet/ia/tutorial/nfirst.htm

Save the file as text, with a .htm or .html extension and insert HTML codes (if you are using an ancient version of Word, or need to do things the word converter won't do*)

Tools for Developing Web Pages, HTML, Graphics

http://www.straight-on.com/tools.htm

To learn more about web publishing, see the list of tools at

http://mit.edu/levitsky/www/create.htm