Information Madness

How many of you still uses Microsoft Word? Hmm I thought so, there are still people who uses microsoft word instead of going forward with OpenOffice. There are plenty of options now and reasons to swich from Word. You have Google Docs, Zoho docs, Adobe Acrobat, IBM Office and OpenOffice. So many of them...still stuck with Word?

Anyways, if you have used word you know when you convert your word file into HTML, microsoft adds proprietary tags and other superfluous noise. Microsoft Word doesn't do a very good job of producing efficient HTML. So what do you do if you want to create clean HTML?

There are couple of ways you can clean up your word generated HTML. Microsoft Word 2002 and Word 2002/XP include an option to save Filtered HTML. There is a freeware utility called Office 2000 HTML Filter that you can download from Microsoft's Download Center that will strip the excess formatting tags from Word-generated HTML files.

Another way is to check out WorldCleaner, a tool that can strip out all those clutter from the word generated HTML, leaving all the basic goodness intact. The service is free of charge for documents up to 20Kb in size. For larger files.