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It will take some world-class parsing, but if you save the word doc as XML (a SaveAs option) you could convert it. Put hard page-returns so you can identify where you want to break up your pages.
There will much global replacement of elements and attributes, but with the skill you obtain you can make a commercial version for sale (and since it targets a M$ product, every update from them will require buying an update (or subscription) from you!)
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W∴ Balboos wrote: every update from them will require buying an update (or subscription) from you!
That's a great idea.
I've written the app and placed it in the App Store, Google Play and for download via Microsoft Store.
It was easy to do using JavaScript.
Sheesh, I'm already starting to make money. $$$$$$$$$$. 
Thanks.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: you can make a commercial version for sale
But who but him would buy it? 
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Converting to XML may not be necessary. I once created a VBA script to take a 300 page book doc and convert it to HTML format for eBook creation. (Wrapped paragraphs, italics, etc. in 'p,' 'em,' etc tags, then saved the resulting document as text.) Result was clean HTML without any of Office's conversion monstrosities. Did almost everything within Word, and that included table of content and index links. I believe VBA is powerful enough to copy a page to a new document, do the type of processing I did, then save as text with an incrementing number at the end, which would give him the result he is asking for. I doubt an XML approach would be easier, but I could be wrong.
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raddevus wrote: Save a numerous page Word Document as a multiple page HTML document??
Who besides you would ever want to do that? 
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011111100010 wrote: Who besides you would ever want to do that?
Ok...you're probably right, but when technology lets you down you've go to rant. 
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raddevus wrote: but when technology lets you down you've go to rant.
I don't disagree; however, I think what Microsoft has done is awesome. They made all their software programmable so that if you don't like how something works, you can write something better and still use their stuff as a foundation.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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011111100010 wrote: what Microsoft has done is awesome.
011111100010 wrote: made all their software programmable
It is very cool. I've done bits of VBA throughout my career and Excel itself is quite amazing for its power.
But I when you gotta rant, you gotta rant. 
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Have you tried LibreOffice? the documentation says it can do it: Saving and exporting documents as web pages[^] - check about 2/3 of the way down, which looks like it does what you want. (I haven't tried it, I haven't installed any WP on the WookieTab yet)
Wordstar? Hah! The best WP ever: AmiPro. Small footprint, full featured, fast as elephant, very, very user friendly. Pity it was killed by Word and it's inability to read / write Word documents... I still miss it.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have you tried LibreOffice?
I have used it in the past and it has done good things.
I took a look at that document and it looks like it does do exactly what I want.
Thanks very much. 
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I still have my pfs:FirstChoice discs and manual. I don't know why anyone would settle for less than a fully functional Integrated Application Suite -- with communication built in!
Though it sure would be nice to be able to export to XML...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Wordstar? Hah! The best WP ever: AmiPro. Small footprint, full featured, fast as elephant, very, very user friendly. Pity it was killed by Word and it's inability to read / write Word documents... I still miss it.
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The version I linked to said "File...Send...Create HTML Document".
Which I just tried on V5.3.0.3 and ... it failed. Such is life.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just tried on V5.3.0.3 and ... it failed.
Yeah, I just tried it and it put the entire document in one huge html page and all of the images are set to absolute positioning and are overlapped on each other at the head of the document. 
Such is the life! Oy!!
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Tried a couple of other options and things got worse.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QL10.png[^]
I believe I now know why they removed the functionality in the newer version.
Back to the manual / VBA process I was using to do this. 
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raddevus wrote: So we can send a robot to Mars to investigate the landscape, but we cannot...
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raddevus wrote: Save a numerous page Word Document as a multiple page HTML document
A shudder of horror went through me when I read that.
Whatever you do, do not open the document in a plain text editor, it would be akin to opening Pandora's box!
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GuyThiebaut wrote: it would be akin to opening Pandora's box!
You don't like viewing extended characters / non-printable characters as ascii representations?
Where's your sense of adventure. I edit Word documents from notepad all the time. 
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Maybe Word has become better at creating HTML documents, I just remember from the distant past(15+years ago) seeing what Word did when it created web pages -the results were horrendously bloated incomprehensible HTML.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Maybe Word has become better at creating HTML documents
Nope!
You are correct that they are still...
GuyThiebaut wrote: horrendously bloated incomprehensible HTML.
My end result took much hand-editing and they still look terrible.
It was all just to make a book I wrote (Writing Fiction By Example) available for free on the web:
http://raddev.us/wfbe/page_9.htm[^]
I know it's ugly.
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