Re: Tips to convert Google Docs into clean HTML?

Subject: Re: Tips to convert Google Docs into clean HTML?
From: Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:36:59 -0400

Thinking out loud...

How about exporting from GD to Word, then save the result in Word as a .DOC
(not .DOCX).

Next, use this tool to convert from DOC to HTML5:
https://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php


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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 4:18 PM Lin Laurie <linlaurie1 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Last year, I had a huge project that they wanted written in Google docs
> (some of their existing docs were already in there and they wanted to move
> the topics into SalesForce. I kept asking to work on a PC but they wanted
> me to work on a Chromebook. There doesn't seem to be a way to take Google
> Docs and transfer them into HTML in a clean way.
>
> The process they came up with was horrible and involved having to add code
> to share the files on the server or some such stuff. If you just copying
> and pasted the HTML into SF the links would break to images so we had to
> save them and the share them. It was truly the most convoluted process I
> ever saw.
>
> IN the end, they had the PM take it over so I could just develop the
> documentation so I wrote for 6 mos and at the end of the project, they had
> 6 mos of Google Docs but no workable process to get them into SF. Then they
> laid off all the people on the project (bad sales figures) and never did
> get all the documentation I wrote into their new implementation. I felt so
> sick about it. It was such a waste of money and all it would have taken to
> make it work was a PC... One of the funny things was that after I was there
> a month, they started to allow PCs in the company, but not to me on that
> project.
>
> I did enjoy the job and have great references and some good friends from
> working there, but what a sad story.
>
> LMK if anyone finds a good process to convert from GD to HTML. I'd love to
> pass it on.
>
> Lin Laurie
> 206.900.1861
> www.linlaurie.com
>
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> Geoff Mann
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:06 PM
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> Subject: Re: Tips to convert Google Docs into clean HTML?
>
> Hey folks. Just following up in case anyone else needs to do this. Here's
> the best method that I've come up with to convert one doc at a time.
> 1. Copy content from a Google Doc and paste it into TextEdit (on Mac).
> TextEdit strips most of the HTML noise behind the scenes and retains
> essential formatting (e.g., headings, paragraphs, bolding, lists, and
> links). I'm guessing some other text editors may work as well.
> 2. Copy content from TextEdit and paste it into a doc tool's WYSIWYG
> editor. My current project is in Document360, but I don't know why it
> wouldn't work with others.
> 3. View the pasted content in the doc tool's HTML editor and tweak
> remaining HTML, which is significantly cleaner than any other solutions
> I've tested. In my case, cleanup primarily consists of adjusting nested
> list tags so they don't close too soon.
>
> Hope that helps someone.
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:23 PM Geoff Mann <geoff -dot- mann -at- uxwordsense -dot- com>
> wrote:
>
> > Just to elaborate a bit, the key conversion issue I run into with
> > various methods is that ordered lists break when they contain nested
> > items such as paragraphs and other lists.
> >
> > There is a script out there (thanks, Keith) --
> > http://jimbir.ch/blog/clean-google-docs-html-programmatically -- that
> > is a few steps in the right direction for individual files, but it
> > doesn't solve the list numbering issue. Plus, the process isn't ideal
> > for a large number of files primarily because it outputs to email,
> > which adds steps to the overall process.
> >
> > There are also a couple online HTML generators such as
> > https://html-online.com/editor/ and https://htmlg.com/html-editor/,
> > but again they don't handle nested lists well and are limited to one
> > file at a time. That said, any one-file-at-a-time solution is workable
> > considering that's all I have now.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 10:34 PM Geoff Mann
> > <geoff -dot- mann -at- uxwordsense -dot- com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hey folks,
> >>
> >> I hope to speed up my manual process for converting Google Docs into
> >> clean HTML, which currently consists of copying G Doc content into a
> >> CMS's WYSIWYG and cleaning up the HTML with a few search-and-replaces
> >> a couple manual tweaks. I'm sure there isn't a magic one-click
> >> solution that will convert the full range of formatting options that
> >> a tech writer utilizes (e.g., in-list indentations and nested lists),
> >> but does anyone happen to use a Chrome plugin or script that can
> >> export clean(er) HTML? Bonus points for a solution that can handle a
> batch of Google Doc files as once.
> >>
> >> Thanks for pondering.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Geoff
> >>
> >
> >
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Re: Tips to convert Google Docs into clean HTML?: From: Geoff Mann
RE: Tips to convert Google Docs into clean HTML?: From: Lin Laurie

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