Conversion Documentation: MS Word to HTML

The purpose of this documentation is to help you convert a MS Word documetn into HTML so that it can be viewed in ProNoun. You may want to bookmark this page because we will be using it throughout the semester.

Create a "www" folder

1. Click on the "Home" icon on your desktop; this is your Home Directory.
2. Go to "File" on the tool bar.
3. Click on "New Folder." A new folder will appear in your home directory.
4. Move the mouse pointer to the box containing the folder name (which should be "untitled folder")
5. When the box around the folder title lights up, type "www" into the box.

**Any html documents placed in this folder will be publishable.**

Saving in MS Word

1. Launch the Microsoft Word (Word 98 or newer) application.
2. Go to "File" on the tool bar.
3. Click on "Open."
4. Navigate through the directory to find the document that you want to convert.
5. If you have not saved your document as a "Word Document...
• Go to "File" on the tool bar.
• Click on "Save As."
• At the bottom of the window, look at the "Save File Type As" options and select "Word Document."
• Now Click "Save."This will save most of the formatting.

Saving as HTML

1. Go to "File" on the tool bar.
2. Click on "Save As HTML."
3. When the window appears, navigate to save this file in your "www" folder.
4. Look at the "Save File Type As" options and make sure that you have selected "HTML Document."
5. Make sure that you add the ".html" suffix to the end of your file name (ex. ked.doc should become ked.html)
6. Now you can click "Save."

Publishing Your Page

There are two means to publish your web page.

telnet

1. Find "picket.cc" in the telnet options.
2. Type your login and password
3. At the first "fsh>" prompt, type <webenable> and then [RETURN].
4. At the second "fsh>" prompt, type <chmod -R 755 www> and then [RETURN].
5. At the third "fsh>" prompt, type <exit> to quit.
6. Then check your publication.

netscape

1. Go to the "My Career Account" Icon and double click.
2. When the your Career Acount options launch, choose "Change My Web Page Permissions."
3. Read through the node and then click on the "Change My Permissions" button. Be patient: the computer will take up to a minute to make these changes.
4. Then check your publication.

1. Launch the Netscape application.
2. In the url box type <http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~<your login>/>. This will launch your web directory.
3. Click on the file that you just converted to html.
4. Look at the url of the page; copy this down letter for letter/number for number. This must be exact.