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CONVERTING OFFICE DOCUMENTS
TO WEB PAGES

Dr. Richard L. Bowman
Academic Computing, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, USA 22812

I. Introduction

Many documents that were created using Microsoft Office could be made more readily available by placing them on the World Wide Web. There are several ways one can do this.

• Transfer the document straight to the web and creating a link to it on an appropriate web page. This is the easiest solution, but it requires persons accessing the file to have a program that can read the file installed on their computer.
• Open the document in the appropriate MS Office application and then saving it as a web page. This is also an easy solution, but the resulting web page(s) may not be very clean or usable in all browsers.
• Copy the appropriate information from the document and paste it into a new web page in an HTML editor. This will produce the cleanest and most effective coding for information stored in Word or Excel documents, but it is a bit tedious.

Directions for these three methods are given below.