BRIEF INSTRUCTIONS ON
TURNING A WORD DOCUMENT
INTO DREAMWEAVER HTML

Students may find it easier to start their web project drafts in Word until they become used to HTML/Dreamweaver.

If students start a paper draft in Word, the best way to convert to HTML is to copy and paste – this is much better than saving as HTML in Word (MS Word puts in a lot of unnecessary code that is hard to clean up).

CONVERSION STEPS:

1. Open your Word document in MS Word and open a blank HTML document in Dreamweaver in the Design View.
2. In Word, Select All (Control-A) and Copy (Control-C).
3. Go to your blank document in Dreamweaver and Paste (Control-V)
4. Save your Dreamweaver document with an appropriate file name.
5. Go to the Code view in Dreamweaver to get a sense of the HTML code.
6. Go back to the Design view.  Many of the text formatting commands are similar to the ones in Word, so you can continue to add text and make formatting changes in Dreamweaver.  (Or you can make all your edits in Word and reconvert following these instructions.)

For More information on HTML and Dreamweaver:

Basic HTML Tags
HTML Tutorials
Dreamweaver Tutorials