Cleaning up Word generated html

HotMeTaL pro 6 was once a good tool to create, validate, modify and clean up html sites under win OS. it also includes a full linkcheck offline.

another approach i prefer and practised when i converted my (wordperfect, staroffice, netscape, and other generator-created old pages into current version ):

copy and paste all text only ( without HTML )
and REDO all HTML from scratch with professional generator producing CLEAN code.

i use Quanta plus under Linux since many years to my fullest satisfaction!
http://quanta.sourceforge.net/

while this method MAY appear appear much work
it is VERY little in deed ...

because you do the full html stripping and rebuild ONCE in a life time and have clean code for a FULL lifetime !

 

in this current millenium we use to to all formatting by external CSS
leaving all pages clean and fast to load !
AND ...
to assure web site owner AND webmaster pass the parachute test successfully and alive.

 

I've had good expereinces with Dreamweaver's clen up Word HTML code command. Just go to COMMAND and select "Clean up Word HTML".
Dreamweaver has some options to only clean up CSS, or all or others.

so try dreamweaver to clean it up.

 

The word I have for you is: Tidy!
Tidy is a tool originally from W3C and cleans up html documents INCLUDING MS WORD html (it has a special configuration option for this!).

http://tidy.sf.net
-or-
PHP binding: http://php.net/tidy

 

I've found the easiest way to clean up word html is to paste it into wordpad then cut/paste it into your html editor or notepad. It removes all that stupid idiotic bull pucky crap that word puts in the code.

Regards,

Michael

 

@smyrl

What tool do you use to do the job?