Word 2000 in a Nutshell

Name

File → Web Page Preview

Synopsis

This command displays a document as it would look if viewed in the default browser. Actually, the document is saved temporarily as an .htm file in \Windows\Temp\Word and is opened in the default browser by this command. When publishing complex pages to the Web, however, it is a good idea to see what the HTML looks like in other browsers (e.g., Netscape Navigator).

Word generates a lot of excess HTML code used to later convert the file back to a Word document with all formatting intact. Although this excess code may be fine for intranet purposes, we don’t recommend using these HTML files on the Internet, since they can take longer to load in a browser. Try working in Word’s Web Layout view (View → Web Layout), to get a good idea of how the page will look in Internet Explorer as you work. For more on Word’s views, check out Chapter 6. For more on cleaning up Word’s HTML, see Chapter 16.

Cleaning Up Your HTML

Microsoft has posted the Office HTML Filter utility on the Office Update web site (http://office.microsoft.com/) that removes Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as HTML. Learn more about this tool in Chapter 16.