Re: Tool to clean up MS Word (2003)

[SB <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thanks to all. Indeed, I didn't mean cleaning the HTML.
What about a tool that identifies duplicate (redundant) styles with
diferent names?

On 4/15/08, Zagorac, Mladen <Mladen -dot- Zagorac -at- lionbridge -dot- com> wrote:
> I don't think what Sylvia meant was cleaning up Word-generated HTML, but rather unused styles.
>
> Sylvia, I haven't tried it out myself, but you might want to follow this procedure http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;193536. One would expect it to work since it comes straight from the horse's mouth.
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> SB <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a tool out there that allows you to clean up MS Word?
> >
> >  We are trying to apply a template but many styles are redundant and I
> >  am wondering if there is a tool that can identify the styles that have
> >  different names but the same formatting.
> >
> >  In short, I am wondering how we can have clean documents without
> >  having to paste everything as text and reformatting everything from
> >  scratch. Is this possible?
>
> If you use Word's save-as HTML, then apply  one of more of:
>
> HTML Tidy, which cleans up bad HTML:
> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
> http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
>
> The Amaya browser/editor, which has a built-in HTML validator:
> http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
>
> The demoroniser, a program from Fermilabs specifically for
> fixing Microsoft HTML's gratuitous standards violations:
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
>
> That should get you to clean HTML.
>
> But HTML is all ASCII text, so (with or without the cleanups
> suggested above) you should be able to open it in any text
> editor and use search-and-replace to your heart's content.
> That should let you fix any tagging oddities.
>
> Then read it back into Word and apply more tags as needed.
>
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