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From: "NetWorker" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Unediting HTML in Word 2000

I would check IE anyway! The entire MS bundle including your OS may work
together.

STOP Using Word.
Your goal is only in getting html pages created anyway.
Internet Explorer or any other browser do a much better job of retaining the
html format of pages by using "File / Save As."

Word's only purpose in creating web pages is to offer the benefit of
returning that web page into a Word doc.

I've never nor will I use Word to view and/or create web pages. The only
exceptions have been to see what problems users in this forum are having.

Rather than double clicking to open the previous web pages you have created
with Word?

Open NotePad and select "File / Open"

Using WordPad to work with web pages can create problems as well, especially
when you copy and paste from Word to WordPad. In those instances, WordPad
functions EXACTLY as Word and pull in all the Word html garbage.

Perhaps Bob Buckland or one of the other MVP's may advise you of "file
associations" with Windows Explorer which utilize these association problems
your having?

                 Best         Don

Hi Larry,

Word doesn't reset the HTML file associations on its
own, but there is an ability built in to recognize
those Word Web Documents that Word creates and those
it will open, basically it recognizes them as a .HTM
or .MHT copy of a .DOC file, with full content.
Those Word Web Documents contain content other than 'regular'
HTML, designed to keep the document useable as a .DOC
compatible flavor.

If you're looking at using Word 2000 for doing web pages
that are not intended to be Word Document compatible then
you may want to install the Office 2000 HTML Filter v2 for
Word and use the Start=>Programs  utility it adds to process
the Word Web Documents into HTML files.   It will strip out
a lot of the bulk in those HTM files including the line
that causes them to reopen in Word for editing.
This page has the download as well as links on ways to use
'lighter weight' Word 2000 produced web pages.
http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=209ADBEE-3FBD-482C-83B0-96F
B79B74DED

FWIW, with Office 2000 you are always using the IE engine,
it's part of what processes the Help files and the HTML documents
within Word.

If you right click on the Word Web document files with the shift
key held down you should be able to get an 'Open With' choice and
can bypass Word doing that.

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Thanks for the suggestions; they almost work. Of course the IE changes are
unnecessary, as I _never_ use IE -- it's just too dangerous.

Apparently, Word grabs the existing .html file association and caches it. When
you uncheck the "Word is default editor" box it continues to associated itself
with HTML files, but passes the command on to the previous association, _unless
it detects that it created the HTML file in the first place_, in which case it
opens it with Word no matter what.

What I am attempting to do is save HTML files from Word documents, and then fix
them using a real HTML editor (even WordPad is a better HTML editor than Word).
I just want Word to keep its hands off my registry settings! Is this possible? >>