Converting Documents which don't Use Styles

WordToWeb uses the standard Word heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) in order to create a table of contents for your HTML publication. In addition, WordToWeb can automatically apply formatting attributes such as font, color and alignment to headings. If you want to take advantage of these features, then you must provide some way for WordToWeb to identify the headings in your source documents.

If your source documents don't use the standard heading styles, you can set up a translation which specifies that text formatted in a particular font, size, color or text attribute (bold, italic or underline) will be converted to a heading.

For example, suppose your source Word documents has the major subject headings formatted in Arial 16 point text and the subheadings formatted in Arial 12 point, bold, italic. You could set up translation specifying that Arial 16 point text will become a Heading 1, and Arial 12 point, bold, italic will become a Heading 2. You could then use WordToWeb to translate the document to HTML.

To set up a translation of this type you use WordToWeb's Word To HTML Translations dialog box. You can access this in Wizard Panel 5.

1. In wizard panel 5, click the Specify Translations button. The Word to HTML Translations dialog box will appear.
2. On the left side of the dialog box, click the in Font radio button and then specify one or more font attributes which define the formatting of your heading.


Figure 23 - Setting up a Heading Translation

3. On the right side of the dialog box check the Apply a heading style box and choose the heading style you want to apply.
4. Click the Add >> button to save the translation.
5. Repeat for any other heading styles which you want to define.

• If you translate text in a particular font into a heading, then it must be used only for headings in your source documents. For example, if you specify that 16 point Arial will become a Heading 1, then you cannot have used 16 point Arial in any place which you don't want to become a Heading 1 style.
• If you translate more than one Word document as part of a single HTML publication, you must have used the font formatting for the headings consistently across the documents.
• Using this translation procedure does not modify your source documents in any way—it simply causes WordToWeb to treat the specified font formatting as though it were a heading style.

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