Question

I have hundreds of .doc files with text that I need put on web pages.

I realize I could convert every .doc file to .txt, then use a server side include to embed the contents of each page into a webpage. This would save a lot of time because I could simply have one .php?txt=… page which will display a different .txt include depending on the link the user pressed to get there. This works perfectly content-wise.

However, all formatting is lost when it is converted to .txt (titles should be in bold)

When I convert these .doc files to .html using Microsoft Word, the ~20 line documents become bloated >300 line .htm files (probably because each paragraph is put into textboxes)

Dreamweaver’s “Clean up Word HTML” helped a bit but the code was still extremely bloated.

How would you suggest going about this?

edit: I may have solved my own question, trying to embed Google docs into my page.

Answer 1

There is a program suite called wv (former mswordview). It has a program wvWare. This software can transform Word documents to HTML.

Furthermore you can use the output from Word and send it through tidy. This corrects markup and usually can handle the mistakes made by Word.