Translating a Word Doc to HTML - Easy way out?

[Sisil]

I know this is going to sound like I'm being lazy, or this is a really dumb question, but I don't if there is an easy way out of this....

I have a word document with ALL different texts/fonts/formats and I need to turn it into HTML so that I can post it on shareasale for our affiliate program. Is there an easy way to do this or do I have to re-do the whole thing word for word with HTML?

Thanks for the help!

[djr33]

Word can just export as a webpage, .htm
However, this outputs really bad code, so it's not great practice.
Using it to make a web version of a document is fine, but don't use word to design a website.
This is just a warning... 'cause it's more setup for internet explorer and causes weird bugs in other browsers.
Generally speaking, outputting a single document as a webpage is probably just fine.
Note that you may lose a small bit of formatting, just due to the translation to html where some features aren't available, but it should be overall very similar.

I think its file> save as webpage....

Hope this helps.

[Twey]

Yes, you can. However, as djr33 suggested, it's a rather bad idea Much better would be to export it to a universal format intended for documents, such as PDF or PostScript. If you absolutely must use HTML, it would be smarter to rewrite it from scratch. There are fundamental differences between word processing documents and web pages. Word processors are designed to be printed. This means that certain things are common that are a very bad idea on the Web, where there are many additional variables, such as fixed-size fonts or reliance upon a fixed page size. The Web simply doesn't work like that, and so designs will not translate well between the two.

[djr33]

Having a PDF/Postscript file, or better yet, the original .doc to download is a good idea.
I'd provide the html version of the word file as an "alternate", knowing that it'll be a preview for the download and/or just for lazy users who don't want to download.