Word macro for clean HTML code

[Toxaris]

If anybody is interested, I create a macro to transform a Word document to clean HTML. The following things are supported:
- simple formating (italic, bold, underline, superscript, etc)
- 1 level lists
- tables
- images
- foot- and endnotes
- hyperlinks (internal and external)
- header tags
- custom named styles in Word
- bookmarks

It will use UTF-8.

Just unpack the .bas file. Press Alt+F11 in word and import the .bas file into the Normal.dot.

Comments have been removed or translated into English.

[Ralph Sir Edward]

What version of Word/what level of Word documents are needed?

[Toxaris]

It should work for version 2007 and up. I would not be surprised if it would also work for 2003. It works for both doc and docx.

[mvo]

Thank you! Luckily, I can read a little bit of Dutch - just enough to get by

[Toxaris]

New version... Better way to change the headers (Word language independant) and prevent of some possible loops.

[Toxaris]

A new version again. Installation procedure is the same.

Please be aware. The macro will not create a stylesheet, but will create a reference to a stylesheet (if you choose to).

[mmat1]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

It should work for version 2007 and up. I would not be surprised if it would also work for 2003. It works for both doc and docx.

This is not an in-depht analysis, but a quick check shows, that it works well in W2003. So W97 shoudn't cause much problems.

It's great !!!!!!

[Toxaris]

Small bugfixes. It should also work on a Mac now. I also converted the comments and texts into English.

Updated the start post with the latest version.

[Keroberos]

Many thanks (now I don't have to finish translating it myself ).

[Hitch]

Toxaris:

I downloaded the 2.5 version from your post on 3-7-12, but nothing is in English--did I get the wrong zip?

Tx,
Hitch

[Toxaris]

Hitch, use the attachment from the top post.

[Hitch]

Thanks, Tox:

Thought I'd take it out for a spin; we're always adding new people and new tools, so anything that makes our process faster or can be used by some of our new folks is good.

(ETA: D'oh! "Eng." :facepalm}

Hitch

[Hitch]

Hi, Toxaris:

I'll try this again, but every time I attempt to run it, it crashes Win7, Word2010, on a PC Quad.

ETA: Crashes it EVERY TIME.

Hitch

[Toxaris]

A crash? I never had a crash by the macro before nor have heard of others. I also use Win7, but Word 2007. Does the crash occur at a certain step? Perhaps there are some differences between 2007 and 2010, but a crash should not happen anyway of course.
Does it contain a table?

[Hitch]

Hi, Tox:

No, no tables. The first one I tried contained some Word x-refs (I think to a now non-existent character list, perhaps), which I didn't realize, and I think that just tanked it completely. It simply stopped responding, across all open instances of Word, and I had to restart it.

The second one I tried (and, as far as it goes, it worked a treat, btw) completed, but then it seemed to hang Word. I had to close Word from the task bar; the (now-empty) Word program just sat there like a dead dodo, I couldn't close it by the usual methods, either by File->exit, File->close, or x'ing out, I was only able to close it from the taskbar.

The resulting html file, though, was findable and usable, so whatever happened, it produced the file, placed the finished html file in the dir, but then Word just wanked. (I realize that these are highly descriptive technical terms: wanked). My only other question, other than the Word program weirdness, is the inquiry into the other paragraph styles. I infer that what the macro is asking is for the Word-given style name, is that right? Does this iterate if there are, for example, 5 styles that you wish to retain? (This is simply a curiosity question; I'm comparing this macro's capabilities against the BookCreator macro for our newer bookmakers who haven't developed their own macros/clips/PERL programs to do it.)

Thanks--hope this is remotely useful,

Hitch