You might not believe of Word as a tool for creating websites, and that’s all right– it’s truly not excellent at it, anyway. However, if you have an existing Word document that you require to turn into a web page for whatever factor, Word has you covered with some integrated tools.
Keep in mind: We’re using Word 2016 in our examples for this article, however the capability to conserve a file as a websites (or HTML) has been offered in numerous previous variations of Word. If you’re using a version older than Word 2016, you may not see all the features we describe in this short article, but you’ll be able to follow along with most of it.
How to Save Your Document as a Web Page
First, open up the document you ‘d like to conserve as a web page. On the File menu, choose the “Save As” command, and then click the “Browse” choice.
In the Save As window, browse to where you ‘d like to keep your file. Then, type a name for your page into the “File Name” box. By default, the name of your Word document will currently be completed if you’ve waited previously.
Next, click the “Save As Type” dropdown menu. On the menu, you’ll find three options for conserving your document as a websites: Single File Web Page; Web Page; and Web Page, Filtered.
All of these choices will transform your file to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the standard for showing text on a websites. Nevertheless, each file type produces a somewhat various type of HTML file. Which one you ought to utilize depends upon your online publishing preferences and whether you prepare to convert the file back to a Word document later.
Let’s take a better take a look at those 3 alternatives.
For the most part, the Filtered Web Page choice is the best way to conserve a Word document as a websites. It maintains your file’s content and formatting, however strips out a bunch of extra HTML code that you simply don’t need, and keeps the file size small. This provides you the cleanest code and fastest page filling time for your web page, but it likewise removes Word-specific formatting components from the document. You must just pick this file type if you don’t plan to transform the websites back to a Word document later on– which, let’s face it, isn’t actually a thing people do typically.
In the Save as Type dropdown, click the “Web Page, Filtered” option.
Click the “Change Title” button.
In the menu that appears, type a title for your websites, and after that click the “OK” button.
A caution box appears asking if you’re sure you want to convert the file to an HTML file, because it will remove Office-specific tags and features. Click the “Yes” button.
Now, you’ll have a web page saved to your chosen location. You can fill it up in your web browser to examine it out, or upload it to your web site. By default, Word saves the real html file in whatever folder you picked, and all the supporting images on the page to a subfolder. And, you’ll require to upload that folder of images to your site, too.
Although, as we’ll speak about a bit later, you can change that default habits.
The “Web Page” alternative on the “Save As Type” dropdown menu works just a bit in a different way. Much like the filtered option, it conserves your websites as an HTML file and conserves any supporting images into their own subfolder. Nevertheless, the “Web Page” option preserves as much of Word’s format and additional document information as possible instead of filtering that things out.
And of course, since it conserves that details, the resulting will be a little bigger than with a filtered page.
You’ll have to play with it a bit to see if it truly saves the particular types of formatting you need on your page, but it usually does a fine job.
The “Single File Web Page” option does conserve all possible formatting info (much like the “Web Page” option), however rather of saving images into a different folder, it saves all your supporting images and the page itself as part of the exact same MHTML file.
It can be convenient for keeping an eye on pages where you may forget to bring along the separate supporting files, but this option also saves a much larger file. In some cases, the resulting file size is close to a combination of the size of the page and supporting files (like images). However sometimes, the files can get a fair bit bigger, simply depending upon what’s getting conserved.
It really not the best choice if you’re planning to make the page a part of a website– a minimum of not one where you desire pages to load rapidly. But it can be useful in specific circumstances– like when you wish to share a document with someone who has no other way to check out a Word file (not even the complimentary services out there) or PDF.
Note: If you’ve got a blog, you can also publish a Word file directly to your blog utilizing Word’s sharing features. It works a bit in a different way than what we’re speaking about in this post, so we’re not going to go into detail on it here, however it’s worth having a look at.
Word also uses a number of helpful options for personalizing how files are conserved as web pages.
To get to these choices, in the Save As menu, open the “Tools” dropdown, and after that click the “Web Options” button.
The Web Options window features 5 tabs you can utilize to configure different settings governing how websites get conserved.
The examples you can configure on these tabs include:
It’s also crucial to know that these options are set on a per document basis. Set these alternatives on a document, and that file will maintain the settings. Nevertheless, other documents you work with will continue using the default settings.