Re: Word HTML filters

From: Pop (nobody_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 01/13/05


Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:54:58 -0500

Hmm, those sound like possibilities. I'll check more into that., and I'll go back and see if I missed something in the Install instructs.

Thanks.

Pop

Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:
> Hi Pop,
>
>> The MS web site has an HTML filter to remove the Word-specific
>> stuff from web pages it creates. I just downloaded and installed
>> it, but nothing changed.
>> According to the site, there should be an "Export To" option
>> added to the File menu. The file menu (actually all menues) are
>> unchanged.
>>
> To which folder did you copy/install the tool? I think you have to
> put it in the Startup folder for Word in order to see any menu
> entries.
>
> I may misremember, though. There was a chapter John McGhie wrote for
> our Word book (German market) that discussed how to use the tool
> with more recent versions of Word, and it does work. It's just not
> integrated as closely with the Word application window.
>
> Let's see, here's what we say, more or less: MSFilter.exe was
> designed to work with Word 2000, and will only install if Office
> 2000 is present on the machine(!); that may explain why you aren't
> seeing anything - it may not have installed.
>
> You don't HAVE to install it, however. You can copy MSFilter.exe to
> whereever you want to have it, then create a shortcut to it in the
> Start/Programs list. MSFilter.dot, the addin template, you should
> put in the Startup folder (as I mentioned, above), or you need to
> load it explicitly via Tools/Templates and Addins, when you want to
> use it.
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
> http://www.word.mvps.org
>
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