WD97: Style Changes Not Retained with HTML Styles

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you create a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document in Microsoft Word, any customizations of HTML styles are not retained when you save, close and reopen the document, or when you view the document in a Web browser. The text formatted with HTML styles reverts to the default HTML style format.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design. When a document containing text formatted with any of the HTML styles is saved as HTML, Word only saves the HTML tag of the style and does not save any attributes of the style.

MORE INFORMATION

HTML styles are retained in the HTML code as heading tags. For example, the HTML code for text formatted with the H1 style would look like this:

   <H1>This is my heading</H1>

Therefore, if you modify the HTML styles in Word, the changes will appear on screen, but are not preserved when you save the document as HTML.

The following HTML styles do not retain any changes you make to the style:

   H1 through H6
   Blockquote
   Cite
   Code
   Comment
   Definition
   Definition Term
   Definition List
   HTML Markup
   Keyboard
   Preformatted
   Sample
   Typewriter
   Variable
   Emphasis
   Followed Hyperlink
   Hyperlink
   Strong

How to Retain Formatting in HTML Documents

To retain formatting in an HTML Document, use either of the following methods:

   Format your documents using styles other than HTML styles. When you save
   the document as HTML, Word converts any text not formatted with the HTML
   styles to the Normal style, and converts any formatting to direct
   formatting.

   -or-

   Apply direct formatting to the text defined with the HTML style.

REFERENCES

For more information about saving formatting in HTML, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

     ARTICLE ID: Q157086
     TITLE     : WD97: Limitations of Converting from Word Format to HTML

     ARTICLE ID: Q164011
     TITLE     : WD97: Default Bullet Format Lost After Reopening HTML File

     ARTICLE ID: Q165233
     TITLE     : WD97: Word Loses Center Align When Saving to HTML

     ARTICLE ID: Q165406
     TITLE     : WD97: HTML Page w/Style Tag Doesn't Display in Internet
                 Explorer

     ARTICLE ID: Q164618
     TITLE     : WD97: Conversion of Bullets and Numbering

     ARTICLE ID: Q157477
     TITLE     : WD97: Features Not Available During Web Authoring

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