Word 2003 webpages different than Word 97 web pages

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John - 29 Jan 2004 16:01 GMT

I made my website of about 60 pages back in 1997 with Word
97, now on my new pc with Word 2003 I find all kinds of
problems making simple changes or additions, like Word 2003
has a default setting of making hyperlinks blue and the
underline blue, but my '97 pages are blue background, so I
had white text/white underline, and 2003 won't let me
change it. Any help is most appreciated. I know now that
Word is not the most desired program to make web pages in,
but to change it all now is a lot of work for the return,
and to risk my good standing on google by not changing
everything exactly isn't worth the trouble. Maybe I should
just try and load Word 97 on my new pc and use that? Thanks.

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lostinspace - 29 Jan 2004 18:40 GMT

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From: "John" <>
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Word 2003 webpages different than Word 97 web pages

> I made my website of about 60 pages back in 1997 with Word
> 97, now on my new pc with Word 2003 I find all kinds of
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> everything exactly isn't worth the trouble. Maybe I should
> just try and load Word 97 on my new pc and use that? Thanks.

John,
Perhaps Bob will be along shortly and offer you a Word resolution?
IMO, 60 pages is not all that many to correct in order to maintain Google
ranking.

The simplest solution might be to replace the blue background color with an
image?
A very lightened image which fits with the color scheme of the non-standard
font link changes.

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John - 29 Jan 2004 20:16 GMT

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>A very lightened image which fits with the color scheme of the non-standard
>font link changes.

Thanks for the reply. I found it: TOOLS, OPTIONS, GENERAL,
WEB OPTIONS, BROWSERS, CHOOSE IE 3.0 NS 3.0, DISABLE ANY
CHECKMARKS, and then it works. BTW, what program do you
think is the best for making webpages, if I was going to
buy one just for myself? Thnaks again.
My problem was explained like this:
Microsoft Word makes some commands unavailable when you
open a Web page, create a new document based on a Web page
template, choose to disable features not supported by Word
97, or save your document as a Word 6.0/95 document. The
unavailable commands are not supported by the application
you are creating the document for. For example, underline
color is not available when you create Web pages, documents
for Word 97, or documents for Word 6.0/95.

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lostinspace - 29 Jan 2004 21:09 GMT

----- Original Message -----
From: "John" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: Word 2003 webpages different than Word 97 web pages

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> color is not available when you create Web pages, documents
> for Word 97, or documents for Word 6.0/95.

John,
I used Front Page for over four years, in a very limited capacity.
Using none of the components nor "publishing," (still adding bloat.) It was
primarily used as a text editor. However the majority of my pages revolved
around the use of a few templates, which I created and then I modified from
there. BTW, I've seen it mentioned that FP 2003 is much better than previous
versions. I believe you may download a demo. If not and your interested in
FP, I can dig put a URL for FPE which will provide some insight.
The pages were primarily created using tables as layout.
My desire to improve my page presentation to both my visitors and the SE
robots> (see how they see your pages
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html ) and the ever increasing use of
CSS had my interest for some time.
CSS is a learning process over again.

I'm not sure there is a WYSIWYG editor made that is useable for
cross-compliant pages.
Most of the so-called purists are remaining committed to text-editors
(NotePad and many others) and keying in html lines manually.

When I made the change to CSS I began using a free editor that I've had for
a couple of years; 1st Page 2000 ( http://www.evrsoft.com/ ) which offers
many features which make keying in data lines much easier. The one problem
with the software is that the help files are almost nil. There are some
forums available through their website.
Although CSS has been (at least initially) more effort and slower than what
I was used to in FP, I firmly believe it will enhance my page creation
skills. It has already enhanced my pages as present to visitors and SE's.

In the WWW, their is no solitary solution for creating web pages, nor is
their a firm set of rules for webmasters to follow. Each webmaster must
determine what market or visitor they are attempting to attract and
implement their plan and create their pages BOTH for those visitors and for
the SE robots, hoping to present a healthy appetite of balance for both :-)

Some other editors:
http://www.html-faq.com/editor/?editors
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?HTML_editors

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