Inserting HTML tags into Word document

**Norto23** · 2012-05-17 20:16

I've got several hundred word documents that I need to do some formatting on. I need to go through them and insert html tags into the document as per below...

a short bold text line

becomes

a short bold text line

At the moment I really only need bold, italic, underline, and unordered lists.

Does anyone know of the easiest and most efficient way of doing this? (Or some macro code?)

I don't have much experience in Word, but currently looking at writing a macro.

**RetiredGeek** · 2012-05-18 09:35

Norto,

Welcome to the lounge as a new poster!

You don't need to do anything except to format the document then save it as a Web page in the save dialog.
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**Norto23** · 2012-05-18 20:09

Thanks for the reply. I still want the page to be in Word format, just want the tags , etc inserted.

**macropod** · 2012-05-18 20:10

Cross-posted (and comprehensively answered) at: http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...nt-646040.html
For cross-posting etiquette, please read: http://www.excelguru.ca/content.php?184

**RetiredGeek** · 2012-05-18 20:34

Originally Posted by Norto23

Thanks for the reply. I still want the page to be in Word format, just want the tags , etc inserted.

Since it uses Save As just change the file name slightly for the one with the tags.

**macropod** · 2012-05-18 20:45

RetiredGeek: I think you need to differentiate here between converting a document to HTML format and adding code tags to a document. They're quite different things - your approach creates HTML files from the Word documents; it doesn't add tags to the text in a document. The OP says clearly "I still want the page to be in Word format". Telling the OP to "just change the file name slightly for the one with the tags" isn't going to help - it'll still be an HTML file, not a Word file.

**Charles Kenyon** · 2012-05-19 10:55

The bold, italic, and underlined could be done through replace, which could be made into a macro if you wanted.
I don't know how I would do the unordered lists, though.

One alternative would be to save your document as htm (filtered) and then in your browser read the source code. Copy that back into your Word document. Word produces a lot of html junk, though, for your purposes.

**PamCaswell** · 2012-05-19 14:19

Unordered lists (bullets or nothing before the text) do present a problem unless styles are used for the lists. For the paragraph styles List Bullet and List, one could look for consecutive instances of the style; insert <li> (for list item)at the beginning of each paragraph and </li> at its end; and put the unordered list open and close tags (<ul> and </ul>) around the group.
AFAIK, you can't search for bulleted paragraphs made using the the toolbar buttons of W2003 and before. But can VBA find them? In W20007/10, lists made using the ribbon buttons are in the List Paragraph style and can be searched for. But is there a way in VBA to tell whether the paragraph is preceded by a number or a bullet?

Not being a VBA person, laying out these few possibilities is as far as I can go.

Pam

**macropod** · 2012-05-19 19:22

Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon

The bold, italic, and underlined could be done through replace, which could be made into a macro if you wanted.

All of that is comprehensively addressed in the cross-post, with a macro!!!

**Norto23** · 2012-05-20 17:38

hi guys

thanks for the responses, the find and replace worked well!

cheers

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