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I'm in need for saving a Word document as HTML. It has some background images, other images, texts, ... It opens correctly in Internet Explorer, but how can I save a word doc as HTML so that Firefox and other current browsers render it correctly?
All images are missing in the document. I looked through the generated html document, but the paths for the images appear to be correct.
Any idea?
Things like "Don't save docs as html" won't be helpful here.
Edit: To make myself clear, the normal "Save as HTML" doesn't cut it, the result is broken in any browser other than Internet Explorer.
Edit 2: What I'm using is Word 2010 and Firefox 4. I also tried rendering it in the latest Chrome version, which failed as well. I used different compatibility settings for saving as html, it did not help
2Can you please provide a screenshot (or partial screenshot) showing us in what what way it fails? – Majenko – 2011-04-09T13:02:42.180
Not of that particular document, I'll describe, if not enough I'll create something new. I have a word doc with background image over the entire page, I have other images at various locations, and I have formatted text on the page. The resulting HTML is a white background, no images, just the formatted text. – private_meta – 2011-04-09T13:05:33.790
2using word for html is a horrible idea in general. I'm curious to how uploading it to google docs and using its html output function, or usign OOo/libreoffice to export would work tho – Journeyman Geek – 2011-04-09T13:21:16.407
Can't help about the Word doc itself. Google Docs shows the image, but destroys the entire format even more than Word Export does. I didn't try OOo yet, don't have it installed right now – private_meta – 2011-04-09T13:27:36.413
Just tested in Open Office (3.2.*). It looks ok in Open Office Writer, but breaks when viewed in a browser – private_meta – 2011-04-09T13:53:42.917
Funny! I have the opposite case here. I exported several Word 2010 documents as HTML files and they show fine in Chrome (v18.0) and FF (v11), but look garbled in IE(v9). So far, I traced the offending sequence back to the header section of my Word document: I have a logo in the header and in IE it's layed multiple time and apparently arbitrarily over the text. In the other two it doesn't show up at all (which in this case is better, since the content remains visible and readable). Still investigating, though... – None – 2012-04-23T12:01:43.603
Firefox 4 is pretty much outdated, the latest version is the 20. I would try to update it and see if it helps. – Sekhemty – 2013-05-05T10:35:52.053
This seems to be affecting us in IE9, but fine in IE8, which roughly fits the timeline for this question (IE9 released 14 Mar 2011) – Stephen – 2014-06-04T00:02:43.770