Fortunately, that??™s no longer the case with Dreamweaver.
Another reason to import an HTML file exported from Word, rather than just directly opening
and editing it in Dreamweaver, is file size. Results vary, but importing a Word HTML document
can reduce its size by half, or even more.
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The capability to open and clean up Word HTML documents is a key workflow enhancement for
Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver can successfully open and clean up files from Microsoft Word 97, Word 98,
Word 2000, Word 2002, or Word 2003. You can even apply the current Code Format profile from
Preferences so that the HTML is styled to look like native Dreamweaver code.
Naturally, before you can import a Word HTML file, you must create one. To export a document in HTML
format in Word 97/98, you choose File ??? Save as HTML; in Word 2000/2002, the command has changed
to File ??? Save as Web Page. Although the wording change may seem to be a move toward less jargon, it??™s
significant what Word actually exports. Starting with Word 2000 (and all the Office 2000 products),
Microsoft heartily embraced the XML standard and uses a combination of standard HTML and custom XML
code throughout its exported Web pages. For example, here??™s the opening tag from a Word 2000 document,
saved as a Web page:
xmlns:w=???urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word???
xmlns:dt=???uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882???
xmlns=???http://www.
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