Saving MS Word document in HTML and importing

Question

The Word doc is over 4MB with linked TOC, text, and text
boxes filled with text from mainframe applications. The text boxes
are difficult to control - non-symetrical and, in some instances,
overlapping. The text boxes are Fireworks gifs housed in a separate
folder (Assets, if you will) and there's about 390 of these gifs.
Would it be better to replace the Word text boxes with
Fireworks gifs? The problem I encountered with that is, on the Word
document in the web site, the gifs are not as clear as the text
boxes-kind of fuzzy.
Is there a better way to place such a large document into the
site rather than using MS Word and saving it as HTML?
I appreciate any helpful suggestions on better control of the
gifs and the Word document or any other suggestions?
Inliten

Answer 1

You can kill off all history and save a "final" copy in Word.
That is
recommended practice before you publish to the web anyway.
Though given the
description of the Word doc in question I'd second Darrel's
suggestion to
use a PDF.
Cheryl D Wise
"Malcolm N_" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:27:36 +0000 (UTC), "inliten"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>The Word doc is over 4MB with linked TOC, text, and
text boxes filled with
>>text
>>from mainframe applications. The text boxes are
difficult to control -
>>non-symetrical and, in some instances, overlapping.
The text boxes are
>>Fireworks gifs housed in a separate folder (Assets,
if you will) and
>>there's
>>about 390 of these gifs.
>> Would it be better to replace the Word text boxes
with Fireworks gifs?
>> The
>>problem I encountered with that is, on the Word
document in the web site,
>>the
>>gifs are not as clear as the text boxes-kind of
fuzzy.
>> Is there a better way to place such a large document
into the site rather
>> than
>>using MS Word and saving it as HTML?
>> I appreciate any helpful suggestions on better
control of the gifs and
>> the
>>Word document or any other suggestions?
>>
>> Inliten
>>
>>
>
> AS Darrel said - use PDF. There are a lot of utilities
that can
> produce a pdf from a Word document.
>
> But my favoured appoach is to first import the Word
document into
> OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org/ -
the free Open source
> programme.
>
> This often reduced the "Word" document to a
significantly smaller size
> - as it does not ( like Word does ) save edits,
deletions etc .
>
> Then OpenOffice has a built in pdf generator.
>
> HTH
> Malcolm
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