Making Word template from DW code

Question

I know, I know, Office products are evil but bare with me. I work in a corporate setting and the CEO has asked that I create Word templates from the html email templates that I created for internal communications. The idea from the begining was that each support group would communicate to the internal masses via a custom email format (attached) instead of simply shooting out a standard email. The problem is, I have become the guy who has to format everyone's email since they can't code. I have better things to do.
My question:
In an effort to make this process as easy as composing an email, we thought about putting the html frame work into Word as a template and keep the main content area open for modification from the various users. How do i do this? I figure it can be done somehow since most of the junk email i get these days has some reference to MS Word within its code.
Can anyone provide any direction?
Thanks.
David

Answer 1

The best thing to do in your case is save the HTML in DW and then open the document in Word.  Word can open and edit .html documents with minor issues (if you send emails to Outlook 2007 you are aware of the quirks, if not --> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx , read that article and get the DW plugin to validate pages).
Then just save the document as a .dotx (if you have 2007 this is better because file sizes are smaller and there are more options available to an end-user).
After that you should be set to go.