Convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc/x) into HTML files

Question

Does anybody knows of a good application to get it done quickly and efficiently ?

I bought Word Cleaner but the results are merely sufficient and I need go over all the generated html files to clean tons of useless injected tags like

<strong>H</strong><strong>ell</strong><strong>o </strong><em>Wor</em><em>ld</em>

Most of the articles displayed on a website I manage are based on documents written on MS Word by people how has little idea of what are margins for or ordered/unordered lists, foot/end notes etc and I cannot make them use something else.

Does anyone has a tip to help me handle those pages more efficiently than going over them to correct and apply my CSS style ?

NB: Just for the record, using "Save as HTML DOC" in Word is faaar worst than Word cleaner

Answer 1

This is what me and the team here at work use when bringing MS Word content to HTML:

http://word2cleanhtml.com/

We check all the boxes, paste the code, then convert.

I hope that helps.

Answer 2

I think the best solution for this would be using a WYSIWYG editor. TinyMCE, for example, it's a good one - although i suspect you might need a standalone one. The usage would be similar to any word-like program, but the output would be straight HTML. Also, have you tried other word-like programs, as OpenOffice or LibreOffice? The HTML it's not great, as it has lots of inline styling, but from a quick test it looks like it doesn't have the problem of lots of unnecessary tags.