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Asked: 2026-05-11T04:04:59+00:00

I’m using google docs, and some templates we are using were created using MS-Office.

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I’m using google docs, and some templates we are using were created using MS-Office.
The resulting HTML is fat and ugly, and the 500KB per doc limitation on google makes some cleanup mandatory. I was able to find redundant ‘style’ attributes and move them to some CSS class, and rename the most redundant classes names to shorter ones, which makes me save about 50% of the original size.
Are you aware of some existing tools/scripts/lib which could do this painful job for me, or at least help me to write this magic tool ?

Thanks in advance !

EDIT: I gave a try to both tidy, demoronizer and ‘manual rewrite’:
– Input : 140Kb
– Tidy’ed : 110Kb
– Demoronized : 135Kb

So my favorite answer will be ‘rewrite it!’

Thanks !

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  1. MS-Office makes crappy HTML, period. You’re better of spending time rebuilding the HTML from the original text than trying to walk through that minefield.

    I made a few macros that do some search/replace functions on Word to do basic things like wrap <p> tags around paragraphs and stuff like that, then re-markup the whole thing from scratch.

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