Use "Save as web page" and choose a suitable filename. Say c:\temp\test.htm or something like that. Word will translate the document to html as good as it can. Bold text for example will be placed between <b> and </b> text; tables will be converted to html. No need to type any html yourself, as long as the page contains only formatted text.
Don't use fonts that you can't expect to be present everywhere. But there's nothing wrong with Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma or Verdana.
Then open IE and type c:\temp\test.htm in the address bar to view the result in IE. And if you're happy with it, publish it on your website and post the link here for comment.
The obvious disadvantage of this procedure is that the pages tend to become rather long. If you use an real html-editor (or even Notepad) you can make them much more compact, so they will load faster. But if your audience has broadband it's not really important. But the author of the book you use might not like this and advocate you use only your own html. But that's rather incompatible with using MS Word, in fact.
Things might be different if you want to show pictures on the site. I've never done so using Word as an editor (I use Notepad on my old machine that doesn't run the latest graphic Web editors like Dreamweaver), so I can't tell you how it works then. Only that pictures are separate files and should be transferred to the right (as linked to in the html-code) location on the webserver. Note you can always view the html-code made by Word in View>Source and edit it with Notepad.
Kees
New to building a web site. Am reading the Idiot's Guide to Creating Web Site, where the author goes into HTML codes almost immediately.
The author says to NEVER use Word's fonts, colors, headings, etc.
When I save a Word (MS Office latest version) document, I see an option to "save as web page".
2 questions:
1. Does this mean if I chose that option, my document is somehow saved with HTML code that I didn't type into the document?
2. Or, do I still have to embed HTML code within the document and forget this saving option?
Thanks for the help.
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