Re: Clean up Word tags in HTML / Dreamweaver?

[Paul Goble <pg -at- pgcommunication -dot- com>]

> Christina Lamkin reports: <<I am trying to reduce the tag/dross bloat 
> that results from saving a doc as HTML, in Word.>>

Geoff Hart replied:
> You didn't mention which version of Word you're using, but it's worth 
> having a look at the Microsoft site to see whether there's an updated 
> HTML filter for your version. 

Microsoft's filter for Office 2000 can be found by Googling for
"msohtmf2.exe".  If you run this as a standalone program, then you can 
use it on HTML generated by other software, AND you can set 
options which will remove even more cruft.  

Another commonly-recommended cleanup utility is W3C's HTML TIDY.
But with the aggressive cleaning options set, my opinion is that
Microsoft's utility does a better job at removing syntactically-
correct-but-useless tags.  

-- 
Paul Goble





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