WD98: Limitations of Converting from Word Format to HTMLLast reviewed: March 13, 1998Article ID: Q182156 |
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SUMMARYWhen you save a Microsoft Word document as HTML, and then reopen it in HTML format. Word displays the Web page similar to the way it will appear in a Web browser. Formatting and other items that aren't supported by HTML or the Web page authoring environment are removed from the file.
MORE INFORMATIONThe following table shows the elements that Word changes or removes upon conversion.
Element Word to HTML Comments
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Comments See Comment Comments you insert with the Comments
command on the Insert menu are removed.
After saving the document in HTML
format, however, you can enter comments
and apply the Comments style. The
comments will not appear when the Web
page is displayed by a Web browser.
Font sizes See Comment Fonts are mapped to the closest HTML
size available, which ranges from size
1 to 7.
These numbers are not point sizes but
are used as instructions for font sizes
by Web browsers. Word displays the
fonts in sizes ranging from 9 to 36.
Emboss, shadow, No These character formats are lost, but
engrave, all all text is retained.
caps, small
caps, double
strikethrough,
and outline
text effects
Bold, Yes Some special underline effects, such as
strikethrough, dotted underlines, are converted to a
italic, and single underline, and some underline
underline effects aren't converted.
effects
Animated text See Comment Animations are lost, but the text is
retained. For an animated effect,
insert scrolling text into your page in
the Web page authoring environment.
Graphics See Comment Graphics, such as pictures and clip
art, are converted to GIF (.gif)
format, unless the graphics are already
in JPEG (.jpg) format. Drawing objects,
such as text boxes and shapes, are not
converted.
Lines are converted to horizontal
rules.
Tabs Yes Tabs are converted to the HTML tab
character, represented in HTML source
as 	. Tabs may appear as spaces in
some web browsers, so you may want to
use indents or a table instead.
Fields See Comment Field results are converted to text;
field codes are removed. For instance,
if you insert a DATE field, the text of
the date converts, but the date will
not continue to update.
Tables of See Comment The information is converted, but
contents, indexes and tables of contents,
tables of figures, and authorities can't be
authorities, updated automatically after conversion
and indexes because they are based on field codes.
The table of contents displays
asterisks in place of the page numbers;
these asterisks are hyperlinks that the
reader can click to navigate through
the Web page. You can replace the
asterisks with text that you want to
have displayed for the hyperlinks.
Drop caps No Drop caps are removed. In the Web page
authoring environment, you can increase
the size of one letter by selecting it
and then clicking Increase Font Size.
Or, you can use a graphic image in
place of the letter.
Frames No The frame and the text or objects
contained in the frame, are lost when
the document is saved as HTML.
Drawing objects No Drawing objects are not retained. You
(AutoShapes, can use drawing tools in the Web page
WordArt, text authoring environment by inserting Word
effects, text Picture Objects. The object is
boxes, and converted to GIF format.
Shadows)
Equations, See Comment These items are converted to GIF
charts, and images. The appearance is retained, but
other OLE you won't be able to update these
objects items.
Tables Yes Tables are converted, although settings
that aren't supported in the Web page
authoring environment are lost. Colored
and variable width borders are not
retained.
Table widths See Comment By default, tables are converted with a
fixed width. To convert a table with a
percentage width (so that the table is
sized relative to the browser window),
set the option PercentageTableWidth=1
in the following Windows 95 Registry
location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\
Shared Tools\Text Converters\Export\
HTML\Options
Highlighting No Highlighting is lost.
Revision marks No Changes entered with the track changes
feature are retained, but the revision
marks are removed.
Page numbering No Because an HTML document is considered
a single Web page, regardless of its
length, page numbering is removed.
Margins No To control the layout of your page, you
can use a table.
Borders around No You can place borders around a table,
paragraphs and and you can use horizontal lines to
words help emphasize or separate parts of
your Web page.
Page borders No There isn't an HTML equivalent for a
page border. You can make your pages
more attractive by adding a background
using the Background command on the
Format menu. You can also place borders
around a table, and you can use
horizontal lines to help emphasize or
separate parts of your Web page.
Headers and No There aren't equivalents for headers
footers and footers in HTML.
Footnotes and No
endnotes
Newspaper No For a multicolumn effect, use tables.
columns
Styles See Comment User-defined styles are converted to
direct formatting, provided the
formatting is supported in HTML. For
instance, if you convert a style that
includes bold and shadow formatting,
bold formatting is retained as a direct
formatting, but shadow formatting is
lost.
Hyperlink TARGETS No Hyperlink Targets allow users to
populate a single frame with a new HTML
document.
Because of Word's limitation on
converting frames, Word also strips out
the TARGET tag in HTML Documents.
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