OT: html Clean-up ??

Record a macro script in Word or your favourite editor.

I think you can open it up in Word and copy. Then Paste as text into a new document. Word html files are just as messy.

Cheers

Open it up in a web browser and print to a pdf file.

The MadCap Flare program I am presently evaluating (for the upcoming User's Manual project) might be an answer. Unfortunately, their fully-functionin g demo intentionally forces random character substitutions in the output. You'd need the legit version - it's $995. I suspect that blows the budget?

One thing I do like about MadCap: If you watch their online demo, they have a line about "we all know what ha ppens to big Word documents..." and then they cut to a house on fire, or so mething along those lines.

Most "easy" ways I can think to do what you want will probably wreck Word's formatting, depending on the version and how it was put together. I'm env isioning a large complex document, with headers/footers, text boxes, equati ons, images, tables, captions, legends, page numbers, section headings, ind exed table of contents, hyperlinks, etc...

For something like that, you're probably best to just hack at it natively, in Word. It will probably take less time in the long run, and then (as a b onus!) you'd still be joined at the hip with Word. I often think that was Microsoft's intention all along.

"tidy" aka "htmltidy" is the canonical open-source tool for cleaning up HTML, including Microsoft Office crap (has a special option for that)

Can you do a search and replace? It should be fairly easy in Word or any other word processor.

Bill

open it in a browser and then copy-paste into a word processor

Try changing the file extension to .htm or .html and open again in Word and 'save as' a .docx or .doc file??

?-)