About Microsoft Word and Web Pages

Word can automatically create Web pages from existing documents, often whether you want it to or not. Its commands are particularly confusing to Web page designers who create their own markup code—which is probably you if you’re reading this book.

Figure 2.11. Don’t choose Word’s Web Page option next to Save as type! (And don’t choose Save as Web Page from the File menu!) It’s for converting regular Word documents into Web pages and will mess up hand-coded markup.

Word’s “Web Page” file type (available in the Save dialog box and in older versions of Word as the Save as Web Page menu command) means “convert ...

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