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Subject:Re: Convert Paper Documentation to Web Format From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 03 May 2000 11:20:34 -0500
> I've tried to convert the docs from Word to
> FrontPage, but I end up losing some of the formatting. Since there is such
> a large volume of documentation, it would be very time consuming to convert
> all the documentation manually over to web format.
Unless your design is extremely simple, any conversion from Word to HTML will
sacrifice some of your formatting. If the format is extremely important or too
labor-intensive to undo/redo, you may want to reconsider PDF.
Tracy
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Tracy Boyington mailto:tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Vocational & Technical Education
Stillwater, Oklahoma http://www.okvotech.org/cimc
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