Hi guys,

I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, and ask that a Mod kindly move it if it is.

Anyway, I need to convert my massive, 805 page book from .doc to .html.

When I saved it as a webpage, the code-bloat was so horrendous as to boggle the mind.

I need something to convert the DOC to HTML that will strip it down to the utmost basic of HTML code: <p>, <h1+>, <br>, <b>, <i>, <u>, tables, links, images, and that's about it. I don't need style-sheets, I don't need anything fancy at all. The problem is that doing all this by hand will take a lot of time that I really don't have.

Ideally, I'd like freeware (NOT WAREZ!), but I'm willing to fork out a reasonable amout if necessary. Until I can convert my book to HTML, I can't put it on Kindle. And until I can get rid of all the code-bloat, I might as well not have converted it to HTML at all. So far, the only free programs I found on the net do essentially the same thing MS Word does, and they don't strip down the code to essentials.

Alternateively, if there is a jobless DLP member who can code HTML looking to make a little cash to convert it by hand perhaps we can work something out.

 

Weird option, but you could save a copy as .rtf, reopen it in Word and then convert that to .html. You might lose too much formatting, or it might work like a charm.

 

I spent a long time looking for an effective way to do this a while back for one of my college classes. One of the simplest ways I found is to to upload a .doc into something that lets you view the html code (the ff.net doc manager actually works pretty well). You can then copy the html back into word and do search/replace for most of the code that doesn't fit, converting <strong> to <b> and such.

Images and links will obviously not translate.

 

Doesn't Word allow you to save as 'HTML Filtered' or something. That should just give you the basics.

 

I tried that, actually. Still a lot of code-bloat.

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I'll give this a try.

 

WordOff

I'll leave it up to you to decide whether you want to paste your novel into a webform

 

Have you tried AbiWord? It's been a while since I used it, but I recall it worked pretty well on .doc files.

 

You could try wvWare: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

It's what Portkey uses, I believe.

 

Thank You All!

I would like to thank you guys for your help and suggestions. enembee's suggestion worked best, and I've been able to publish my book on Kindle.

Thank's again!

 

Glad to hear it all worked out. Congratulations for getting it finished :3