Article ID: 212270
Article Last Modified on 7/4/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q212270
SUMMARY
When you save a Microsoft Word document as a Web page (on the File menu, click Save as Web Page), Word automatically converts the page to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the language used by Web browsers to read Web pages.
Because Word displays the Web page similar to the way the page would be displayed in a Web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer), certain types of formatting and other items that are not supported by HTML or by the Web page authoring environment, are not displayed in Word (or in Web browsers).
MORE INFORMATION
When you save a Word 2000 document as a Web page, Word warns you with the message "Some of the features in this document aren't supported by Web browsers" and shows you a summary of the features that are not supported and how they appear in a Web browser.
NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, the features listed in the following tables also behave the same as listed if you do either of the following:
- In Word 6.0 or Word 95, you open a Web page document that was created in Word 2000 (saved as Web page), resave it as HTML (*.htm, *.html, *.htx), and then reopen the file in Word 2000.
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- In Word 2000, you open a Web page document that was created in Word 2000 and saved as a Web page.
The following tables list the elements that Word changes or removes when it saves a file as a Web page.
Character Formatting
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' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Text with character border | No character borders on Web pages. |
| Text with In-margin drop caps |
Text with In-margin drop caps becomes text with initial capital letters. NOTE: This feature is incorrectly documented in Word Help. Please see the article listed in the "References" section of this article. |
| Text is animated | Animated text becomes italic on Web pages. |
| Text is Double strikethrough | Double strikethrough text becomes single strikethrough on Web pages. |
| Text with Emboss effect | Embossed text becomes gray text on Web pages. |
| Text with Engrave effect | Engraved text becomes gray text on Web pages. |
| Text with Outline effect | Outlined text becomes bold text on Web pages. |
| Text with Shadow effect | Shadow text becomes bold text on Web pages. |
| Text with character underline style | Character underline style becomes single underline on Web pages. |
| Horizontally scaled characters |
Horizontally scaled characters become regular text on Web pages. NOTE: This does not affect text that has spacing applied between characters. On the Format menu, click Font. On the Character Spacing tab, change the Spacing setting from Normal to either Expanded or Condensed. |
| Raised and lowered text | Raised and lowered text becomes superscript and subscript text on Web pages. |
| Text with underline color different from text | Underline color becomes the same as the text color on Web pages. |
| Small caps | Small caps become All caps on Web pages. |
| Kerned text | Kerned text becomes regular text on Web pages. |
Paragraph Formatting
|
' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Text with patterned character shading | Patterned character shading becomes solid color on Web pages. |
| At least line height | At least line height becomes exactly on Web pages. |
| Decorative border styles |
Decorative border styles become single-line border styles on Web pages. NOTE: This feature is incorrectly documented in Word Help. |
| Paragraphs with negative left indent | Paragraph indent is set to zero on Web pages. |
Page Layout
|
' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Framed text | Framed text becomes right-aligned or left-aligned text with wrapping on Web pages. |
| Margins | Margins do not appear or print on Web pages. |
| Columns | Columns become a single column on Web pages. |
| Headers and footers | Headers and footers do not appear or print on Web pages. |
| Fields | Fields (for example, MACROBUTTON or EQ fields) do not appear or print in a Web browser. |
| Footnotes | Footnotes are moved to the end of the page on Web pages. |
| Page numbers | Page numbers do not appear or print on Web pages. |
| Page border | Page borders do not appear on Web pages. |
| Tabs | Tabs may not align correctly on Web pages. |
Editing
|
' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Versioning | No versions on Web pages. |
| Password protection | Password is lost on Web pages. |
| Document protection | Password is lost on Web pages. |
| Double underline change marks | Double underline change marks become single underline change marks on Web pages. |
Graphic Formatting
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' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Floating graphic | Floating graphic becomes right-aligned or left-aligned with wrapping on Web pages. |
Asian Text Formatting
|
' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Combined characters | Combined characters become regular text on Web pages. |
| Enclosed characters | Enclosed characters become regular text on Web pages. |
| Horizontal in Vertical | Horizontal in Vertical becomes horizontal text on Web pages. |
| Phonetic Guide | Phonetic Guide becomes regular text on Web pages (Internet Explorer 4.0 only). |
| Two lines in one | Two lines in one becomes one regular line on Web pages. |
| Emphasis dot | Emphasis dot is removed, and text is underlined on Web pages. |
| Document Grid (vertical and horizontal) | Document Grid (vertical and horizontal) becomes regular text on Web pages (Internet Explorer 4.0 only). |
| Compress leading punctuation | Compress leading punctuation becomes full width on Web pages. |
| Hanging punctuation | Hanging punctuation is removed. Last word in line wraps to next line on Web pages. |
| First and last line break control characters | Line breaks do not respect these character settings on Web pages. |
| Distributed text | Distributed text is ignored on Web pages. |
Table Formatting
|
' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Automatically resize to fit contents turned off | Automatically resize to fit contents is turned on, on Web pages. |
| Absolute row height | At least row height on Web pages. |
| Diagonal cell borders | No diagonal cell borders on Web pages. |
| Decorative cell borders | Decorative border styles become box border styles. |
| Text-wrapped table | Text-wrapped table becomes left-aligned on Web pages. |
| Vertical text direction | Vertical text direction becomes horizontal text direction on Web pages. |
| Indent from left | Table with a negative indent from left appears cut off or cropped.
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Web Page Formatting
|
' This formatting in Word |
' Looks like this in a Web browser |
| Don't use HTML paragraph spacing | Use HTML paragraph spacing on Web pages. |
REFERENCES
For additional information about incorrectly documented features that describe saving as a Web page, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
216692 WD2000: Doc Err: Save a Word 2000 Document as a Web Page
For additional information about the "Indent from left" setting causing the table to be cut off or cropped, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
253968 WD2000: Table Appears Cropped or Cut Off When Displayed or Printed
For general information about using HTML, browse to the following Microsoft Web site:
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