- HOW TO: Create and Edit an HTML Document with Microsoft Word 2002
- Create Your HTML Document
- Method 1
- Method 2
- Add Text and Hyperlinks to Your HTML Document
- Add an Image to Your HTML Document
- Open an HTML Document in Word
- REFERENCES
- How do I open an HTML file in Microsoft Word without it rendering the HTML?
- 2 Answers 2
- How to create and modify an HTML document in Word 2003
- Method 1
- Method 2
- Add Text and Hyperlinks to Your HTML Document
- Add an Image to Your HTML Document
- Open an HTML Document in Word
- References
- How to Save Web Page to Word Document Fast and Easy
- Saving Web Pages to Word
- Using Alternative Solutions
- Online Conversion Tools
HOW TO: Create and Edit an HTML Document with Microsoft Word 2002
This article provides a step-by-step guide to how to create an HTML document, including items such as typing text and adding images and hyperlinks to your HTML document.
Create Your HTML Document
Use one of the following two methods to create your new HTML document.
Method 1
- Start Microsoft Word.
- In the New Document task pane, click Blank Web Page under New.
- On the File menu, click Save.
Method 2
- Start Microsoft Word.
- Create a new blank document.
- On the File menu, click Save as Web Page.
- In the File name box, type the file name that you want for your document, and then click Save.
Add Text and Hyperlinks to Your HTML Document
- Open the HTML document that you created earlier in this article. To do this, follow these steps:
- On the File menu, click Open.
- Browse to the location that you saved your article to, in the «Create Your HTML Document» section of this article.
- Select the file and then click Open.
Add an Image to Your HTML Document
- Place your insertion point where you want to place an image in your document.
- On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click ClipArt.
- In the Insert ClipArt task pane, click Search.
Open an HTML Document in Word
If the New Document task pane is still displayed:
In the New Document task pane, select the document under Open a document. This opens the document directly.
If the New Document task pane is not displayed:
- On the File menu, click Open.
- In the Open dialog box, locate the HTML document that you created earlier, and then select it.
- Click Open.
REFERENCES
For more information about HTML support in Word 2002, follow these steps:
- Open Microsoft Word 2002.
- On the Help menu, click Microsoft Word Help.
- Click the Answer Wizard tab.
- Type HTML in the What would you like to do? box, and then click Search.
- Related topics will be displayed. Click any item to display the information.
How do I open an HTML file in Microsoft Word without it rendering the HTML?
I would like to open an HTML file in MS Word 2007 directly so I can use some of its search and replace features. I don’t care about the file’s encoding and will not actually use the final thing as HTML (I’m going to be extracting interesting parts). I want to see raw HTML. When I open the document, instead Word renders everything. I am hoping someone knows how to do this from within Word without having to resort to copying and pasting or modifying the file to change the html tags to no longer look like html (such as or something). I have been hit by this multiple times over the years and wish that I could fix the problem instead of always be forced to find a workaround. Is there some option or setting, or something in the Open dialog that can change Word’s behavior?
2 Answers 2
You can turn off automatic file-type conversions in Word, and instead it will ask you what type of file you’re trying to open, at which point you can pick Text.
To turn it off (or rather turn on Confirmation of conversion):
- Open the Word Options. (Word 2007: click the Office button and then click Word Options. Word 2010: display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options)
- At the left side of the dialog box click Advanced.
- Scroll through the options until you see the General section.
- Make sure the Confirm File Format Conversion On Open check box is selected.
- Click on OK.
If you never want to open rendered HTML in Word again, you can also uninstall the HTML Filter by running Office Setup and de-selecting it form the installed options.
Alternatively and probably easiest: Use something else for the task, like a good Plain Text editor. I personally use and suggest Notepad++.
How to create and modify an HTML document in Word 2003
To create your new HTML document, use one of the following two methods.
Method 1
- Start Word 2003.
- In the New Document task pane, click
Web Page under New. - Click File, and then click
Save.
Method 2
- Start Word 2003.
- Click File, and then click Save as Web Page.
- In the File name box, type the file name that you want for your document, and then click Save.
Add Text and Hyperlinks to Your HTML Document
- Open the HTML document that you created earlier in this article. To do this, follow these steps:
- Click File, and then click
Open. - Locate your saved article, in the «Create Your HTML Document» section of this article.
- Click the file, and then click Open.
Add an Image to Your HTML Document
- Put your insertion point where you want the image to be in your document.
- Click Insert, point to
Picture, and then click ClipArt. - In the ClipArt task pane, click
Search.
Open an HTML Document in Word
- Click File, and then click
Open. - In the Open dialog box, locate the HTML document that you created earlier, and then select it.
- Click Open.
References
For more information about HTML support in Word 2003, follow these steps:
- Start Word 2003.
- On the Help menu, click Microsoft Word Help.
- Type HTML in the
Search box, and then click the arrow. - Related topics and templates will appear.
How to Save Web Page to Word Document Fast and Easy
MS Word is more powerful than you may think. The popular word processing tool is used for all sorts of tasks. Not everyone knows this but it can also be used to open web pages in HTML format.
In this post, you’ll discover how you can open HTML files in Word and save them in one of the supported file formats.
Saving Web Pages to Word
The easiest method, but with the worst results usually, is to simply save the webpage to your computer and then try to open it in Word.
First, open your browser and go to the webpage you want to save. In the example below, we’re using Google Chrome but the process should work for any web browser.
Right-click anywhere on the page and click Save As.
This will prompt the Save As box to pop up. Edit the filename to your liking. Under Save As Type, select Webpage, HTML Only. Click Save.
Launch MS Word, then open the HTML file you want to edit.
The HTML file will open in Word. However, the document itself will not display as it does online. For starters, the formatting will be ruined. The navigation bar, for example, will be broken up and menus are displayed in separate lines.
You will have to edit the document manually to make the page more cohesive.
Removing useless links and web elements will make articles easier to read. Using Word’s Web Layout view makes the cleanup process that much easier.
After some edits, your document should somewhat resemble its source.
When you’re satisfied with your edits, go to File > Save As. Select .docx as your file format.
You should now be able to open the file in Microsoft Word.
Using Alternative Solutions
If you’re not satisfied with the first solution, know that there are other methods available for saving web pages and opening them in Word.
There are Google Chrome extensions like Save Webpage As Word Document that lets you download the HTML file as a Word document. I also mention a online conversion tool down below.
While the end product looks exactly the same, this tool spares you from having to download the webpage as an HTML file. Install the extension and activate it. Go to the page you want to convert. Click the extension and select Complete Page.
The tool will then download the entire webpage as a Word document.
Tip: You can also highlight a section of the page and click Current Selection. This will allow you to download a specific section instead of the whole page.
You can also try copying the entire webpage and pasting it in Word.
But instead of pasting the file as normal, you’d have to use Paste Special. Right-click on Word. Under Paste, there should be several options. Select Keep Source Formatting.
This paste option lets you copy the HTML code while keeping most of the formatting intact.
Do note however that there is no perfect solution. Once the document is in Word, you’d likely have to make a couple of edits to make the document resemble the source material.
Once you’re finished making all the necessary changes, go to the file menu and save the document as .docx.
Online Conversion Tools
The last method, which can sometimes get better results than the two method above is to use an online tool. The one that got me the best results was Convertio.
You can either choose an HTML file that you downloaded or you can click the link icon at the far right to simply paste in a URL for any website. A box will pop up where you can enter more than one URL if you like too. Click on Submit and it will analyze the URLs you entered.
Once complete, make sure Doc is selected for the file type and then click on the big Convert button.
It will take a little time for the conversion to complete, depending on how large the web page is. In my case, it took over a minute because I wanted to convert the Mona Lisa page on Wikipedia into Word.
As you can see, it really does look like the webpage in Word, but in this case, it simply converted the webpage into images and put those into Word. None of the text is editable or anything.
For a smaller webpage, I tested it and it does bring in the text as editable text. So it really depends on how complex and large the webpage is.
You can also try out a couple of other tools to see if you get better results:
Hopefully, one of the methods above has gotten you the result you desire. It’s not a very pretty process and unfortunately there aren’t really that many good tools to accomplish this since it’s not something people do very often.
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