Word to HTML for Craigslist ad
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From: Sesquipedalian Sam on 21 Feb 2010 23:48 I need to write a few ads for Craigslist. If I write them in Word and paste them into the ad, much of the formatting is lost. If I use Word just for the text and manually code the html tags, the document is pretty much unreadable. I see that there are a number of tools that will convert a Word document to html. Can anyone recommend one over the others? All I need is simple tags for an ad: bold, italics, underline, head1 and head2, and lists (mostly unordered). It doesn't need to be free.
From: Yves Dhondt on 22 Feb 2010 04:39 Just use the 'Other Formats' option from the 'Save As' menu in Word and select 'Webpage, Filtered', as your type. That should keep things like bold, italics, ... Yves "Sesquipedalian Sam" <sesquipod(a)nowhere.noway> wrote in message news:2t24o55gg3bnpv1ghrtg2g4bv5iqego0el(a)4ax.com... >I need to write a few ads for Craigslist. If I write them in Word and > paste them into the ad, much of the formatting is lost. If I use Word > just for the text and manually code the html tags, the document is > pretty much unreadable. > > I see that there are a number of tools that will convert a Word > document to html. Can anyone recommend one over the others? > > All I need is simple tags for an ad: bold, italics, underline, head1 > and head2, and lists (mostly unordered). > > It doesn't need to be free.
From: Sesquipedalian Sam on 22 Feb 2010 17:36 On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:39:06 +0100, "Yves Dhondt" <yves.dhondt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Just use the 'Other Formats' option from the 'Save As' menu in Word and >select 'Webpage, Filtered', as your type. That should keep things like bold, >italics, ... When I did that, I got a new document with filetype .htm that looks like the original .docx document. I don't see any html markup. What I need is a text document with html markup that I can paste into the Craigslist ad. Is there a way to get the markup?
From: Yves Dhondt on 22 Feb 2010 18:24 Open the .htm file from within Notepad or Wordpad, that should give you the html source. Alternatively, open the htm file in your favourite browser and look for the 'Show source' function that almost every browser has. Yves "Sesquipedalian Sam" <sesquipod(a)nowhere.noway> wrote in message news:gc16o5dr5sqbuupsn12dhcuufdlbge7np9(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:39:06 +0100, "Yves Dhondt" > <yves.dhondt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>Just use the 'Other Formats' option from the 'Save As' menu in Word and >>select 'Webpage, Filtered', as your type. That should keep things like >>bold, >>italics, ... > > When I did that, I got a new document with filetype .htm that looks > like the original .docx document. I don't see any html markup. > > What I need is a text document with html markup that I can paste into > the Craigslist ad. > > Is there a way to get the markup?
From: Sesquipedalian Sam on 22 Feb 2010 21:50
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:24:20 +0100, "Yves Dhondt" <yves.dhondt(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Open the .htm file from within Notepad or Wordpad, that should give you the >html source. Alternatively, open the htm file in your favourite browser and >look for the 'Show source' function that almost every browser has. OK. That worked, sort of. The source code has a lot of stuff in there. After it was processed by Craig's List, it mostly looked good. Some of the bulleted lists were a little off. There are a lot of websites selling utilities to "clean up" the html output from Word. The general feeling seems to be that Word does not get html and really doesn't care. They want you to buy Front Page. I found a website that does the conversion online: http://word2cleanhtml.com/ I tried the same document there. It came out a lot simpler and the formatted ad after processing by Craig's List looked a lot better. |