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Originally Posted by yekim54
You could try opening the Word file with Open Office and then saving it as HTML 3.2. This might get rid of most of the crapola but save your important formatting.
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Hell, I tried opening it in Writer, but my results weren't that great--iirc, the spans were still present, but I'll try the save as html 3.2 again, just in case I missed a step somewhere, and see if it works. Thanks for the suggestion.
n.b.: Okay, I tried it again this evening and now I remember the issues; there are (heresy, I know)
far too many OO Writer problems to make it viable, unless I do all the Search and Replace functions for section breaks, headers, P chars, etc., in Word and then import it into Writer and then save it. (I mean, the fact that you can't do a viable S&R on manual page breaks
alone is more brain-damage than it's worth). Also, Writer creates almost as many problems with a zillion font declarations and paragraph style declarations as the Word span issues, it's a wash. I spent 3 hours just changing the para and font declarations, and I still have only made it through Chapter 1...so that's not working.
Any other suggestions by anyone?
Hitch