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So I just got out of a conversation with NF-kun about how much of a pain it is to hand code HTML when you're posting stories on Livejournal. She mentioned that there might be a way to get around this, and after doing twenty minutes of digging, I've got your solution.
Earlier than Office 2007:
1) Save the document as an HTML file (it should be in the file formats in the drop down menu in your Save File As dialogue box)
2) Open up the document in Word
3) Go to View->HTML source
You're almost done! See Important Note at the bottom.
Office 2007 (Bane of my existence)
Okay, this is slightly more tricky, since apparently Microsoft has taken away the functionality to easily view HTML sources in Word. I think they're trying to get users to use another piece of new software for this. That's just tempting me to find a way around it...
I just did these steps for one of my really long stories, and it worked beautifully.
1)Open Word. Save the document as a filtered HTML webpage, NOT a regular HTML webpage, this is bad (it should be in the file formats in the drop down menu in your Save File As dialogue box)
2) Open up the document in Word. Click the round Office button on the far left. For those of you who didn't know this was a button, worlds have just opened up.
3) Go down to the very bottom to the right, where there are two buttons: Word Options and Exit Word. Select Word Options.
4) Click Advanced in the right hand menu.
5) Scroll down to General
6) Check the box that says 'Confirm file format conversion on open.' Word will remember this setting for later projects, so you will only need to set Word Options the very first time you go through these instructions.
7) When you open up the file, a dialogue box is going to come up asking what you want it to open the document as. Select Plain Text. This dialogue box only comes up when you open up an .htm/html document and does not interfere with your .doc and .docx files.
You're almost done! See Important Note.
( Important Note; taming the Beast )
And that's it for you. So here's a (relatively) less painful way to convert your Word documents into HTML files for your LJ! Earlier Office users, it takes a few seconds. Office 2007 users...it takes a little longer, but still cuts your time significantly!
Earlier than Office 2007:
1) Save the document as an HTML file (it should be in the file formats in the drop down menu in your Save File As dialogue box)
2) Open up the document in Word
3) Go to View->HTML source
You're almost done! See Important Note at the bottom.
Office 2007 (Bane of my existence)
Okay, this is slightly more tricky, since apparently Microsoft has taken away the functionality to easily view HTML sources in Word. I think they're trying to get users to use another piece of new software for this. That's just tempting me to find a way around it...
I just did these steps for one of my really long stories, and it worked beautifully.
1)Open Word. Save the document as a filtered HTML webpage, NOT a regular HTML webpage, this is bad (it should be in the file formats in the drop down menu in your Save File As dialogue box)
2) Open up the document in Word. Click the round Office button on the far left. For those of you who didn't know this was a button, worlds have just opened up.
3) Go down to the very bottom to the right, where there are two buttons: Word Options and Exit Word. Select Word Options.
4) Click Advanced in the right hand menu.
5) Scroll down to General
6) Check the box that says 'Confirm file format conversion on open.' Word will remember this setting for later projects, so you will only need to set Word Options the very first time you go through these instructions.
7) When you open up the file, a dialogue box is going to come up asking what you want it to open the document as. Select Plain Text. This dialogue box only comes up when you open up an .htm/html document and does not interfere with your .doc and .docx files.
You're almost done! See Important Note.
( Important Note; taming the Beast )
And that's it for you. So here's a (relatively) less painful way to convert your Word documents into HTML files for your LJ! Earlier Office users, it takes a few seconds. Office 2007 users...it takes a little longer, but still cuts your time significantly!
