I am looking for a word style html editor.  I have used dreamweaver
quite a bit and found it a hassle when it gets "funky", and doesn't
understand some html (eg bullets get messed up and I can never quite
get them to align properly).   I have tried verious versions of front
page before Office 2003, and did not like those either for the same
reason.

I don't want to use a simple text editor like notepad; I really don't
want to delve too far into html.  I just want MS word in an html
editor.  Does that even exist?

My needs for html are not very advanced, I want to be able to edit
pages like this one: http://auctionsecrets.com.  But if I tried
editing that in Dreamweaver MX I would end up spending half my time
dealing with formatting problems.

Is Frontpage 2003 better at handling this kind of stuff?

I have just recently tried Editplus, which looks promising, however it
doesn't appear to allow you to edit directly in an HTML style mode;
you're working in text and then it inserts the appropriate tags for
you.

Maybe I'm missing the point here.  I just want to be able to edit web
pages like I use MS word.

What do you suggest I do?

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Request for Question Clarification by efn-ga on 18 Apr 2004 17:34 PDT

Hi adrianb,

Microsoft Word itself can save a document as HTML.  Just choose HTML
as the document type in the Save dialog.  It's not going to be able to
represent everything Word can do in HTML, nor do some things
specialized HTML editors can do, but it may be adequate for your needs
and it certainly would meet your requirement of a Word-like user
interface.  I tried it out and it seemed to work with italics, bold,
underline, various type sizes, centered text, right-justified text,
and a bullet list.

So I'd suggest you try that approach, and if it seems to be
satisfactory, let me know in a clarification and I will post it as an
answer.

--efn

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Clarification of Question by adrianb-ga on 19 Apr 2004 05:11 PDT

Thanks for your comments.

Do you think I would be able to take the page:
http://auctionsecrets.com, paste it into word, make all the editing
changes I want, and then save it out as HTML?  I suspect that won't
work very well, or am I wrong?

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Clarification of Question by adrianb-ga on 25 Apr 2004 16:08 PDT

> However, saving the page from the browser as a local HTML file and then 
> opening that file with Word might work better. 

I tried this; word crashes with the document in it after a few minutes of editing.

Does anyone else have any other ideas?

If the format get screwed up while editing the existing layout just
copy the text to notepad first, then copy it to front page or what
ever and re-apply the formatting so that it's "native"

For a page that simple though it may be easiest to just learn a little html.

Doing a "select all" and copy in a browser and then a paste in Word
will not work very well:  formatting will be lost.  However, saving
the page from the browser as a local HTML file and then opening that
file with Word might work better.  This second technique didn't work
with Word 97 (it choked on "nested tables that are too complex to
represent"), but Word 2000 showed a reasonable representation of the
page, and I believe it would work at least to edit the text.  So if
you have Word 2000 or later, I suggest you give it a try.

--efn

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