Word 2000 and HTML

Saving as HTML

You can take any Word document and save is as an HTML file. HTML is the standard used for Web pages. If you go to your File Menu and choose Save As Web Page, you can save your document for use on the Web

Before clicking on Save, you should go under the Tools button at the upper-right side of the box and choose Web Options...

The General tab lets you disable features not supported by certain browsers. It is recommended you set it for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Navigator 4.0. The second section allows you to use Cascading Style Sheets with your document.

If you have a lot of graphics or outside files included with the presentation, creating a folder to hold these support files will make transferring any files easier. The name of the folder will be the same as the name of the original presentation. You can turn off the option of long file names if your Web server does not support them. You can also have Word update the links when you save the file.

If you have an audience that might use older browsers, you may wish to leave the top two options off. VML (Vector Markup Language) is a VERY new method for describing graphics in text format. Also very new technology is PNG, (Portable Network Graphics) which allow smaller-sized graphics with more colors. These only work with the latest browsers. (IE 5.0 or later) You can set the target monitor to cater to what your audience might use. Typically, a 640x480 display at 96 pixels per inch will work nicely.

The encoding section works for modifying the presentation for browsers using other languages.