How Word works to create web pages

When you build a web page in Word, you are using Word to edit your text and insert your pictures.This is often done with the text and images inside a table.When you SAVE your document as a Word file, it maintains all the characteristics of a Word document. You can edit and move as you wish.

How Word works to create web pages

Tip >> Text Wrapping does not work well at all when your document is converted to a web page. I recommend you not use it. Just stick with the cells in the table.Stick with the tips for text on the class web site.

How Word works to create web pages

When you SAVE AS your Word document to hypetext markup language (.htm), the new formatting – htm – overrides the language Word used to build the page – to a certain extent.This is why things like page breaks disappear in the web version of your document. It’s also why things tend to move a bit.

How to edit your web pages

Probably the best practice to edit your web pages is to use your web browser – Firefox, Chrome, IE, etc. to proof your page after you SAVE AS your document as an .htm file

THEN – go back to the original Word document, make your changes and re-save your corrected version as a new .htm file.