abiword-user Mailing List Archive: How to document for html and Word

I love AbiWord. I would like to contribute by producing "How tos" for
the community at large. I think there is a growing linux desktop
userbase who is less familiar with computers and editors. I feel to
strengthen adoption of one of the best editors anywhere, AbiWord ought
to provide basic, clearly written How tos. I have included a sample of
the How to that I think may prove useful. I welcome comment and
suggestions and hope that it may be considered useful.

Purpose: This document aims to explain how to save documents in AbiWord
as html or Microsoft's Word format.

Contents: If you can open or create a document in AbiWord, you can save
it as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or a Word document. This is
useful if you are going to share this document on a web site or with
someone who uses Microsoft's Word software to view and edit documents.

To do this go to the "File" menu in the upper left corner of the AbiWord
top tool-bar and click on "Save As ..." (This will be referredas "File
-> Save As" throughout this document.) There is also an icon provided
for this action; AbiWord Image write.disk.png

A dialog box pops up, prompting you to pick a format for the document.
There is a left-hand box that says; "Save as type:" You can pull down
the dialog box just to the right of this and chose a format.

* For HTML - HTML 4.0 (.html .htm) should be selected.
* For Word - Microsoft Word (.doc) should be selected.

You can see that the format is named and the ensuing document suffix is
displayed. If you were to save a document and call it MyPage, when you
save it as HTML it will be called MyPage.html. Similarly, it would be
called MyPage.doc if you saved it in Word format.

Additional Notes: Microsoft Word is a proprietary format. This means
that it is copyrighted by Microsoft and can be changed by them without
public comment. Documents can also be displayed in XHTML 1.0 (.xhtml)
format as well. This is perhaps preferred since it is the transitional
markup language which allows for both XML syntax and backwards
compatibility.

How to save AbiWord documents in

HTML or Word.

Purpose: This document aims to explain how to save documents in AbiWord as html or Microsoft's Word format.

Summary: Go to "File -> Save As -> Save file as type -> html (.html, .htm)"

Go to "File -> Save As -> Save file as type -> Word (.doc)"

Contents: If you can open or create a document in AbiWord, you can save it as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or a Word document. This is useful if you are going to share this document on a web site or with someone who uses Microsoft's Word software to view and edit documents.

To do this go to the "File" menu in the upper left corner of the AbiWord top tool-bar and click on "Save As ..." (This will be referredas "File -> Save As" throughout this document.) There is also an icon provided for this action;

A dialog box pops up, prompting you to pick a format for the document. There is a left-hand box that says; "Save as type:" You can pull down the dialog box just to the right of this and chose a format.

For HTML - HTML 4.0 (.html .htm) should be selected.
For Word - Microsoft Word (.doc) should be selected.

You can see that the format is named and the ensuing document suffix is displayed. If you were to save a document and call it MyPage, when you save it as HTML it will be called MyPage.html. Similarly, it would be called MyPage.doc if you saved it in Word format.

Additional Notes: Microsoft Word is a proprietary format. This means that it is copyrighted by Microsoft and can be changed by them without public comment. Documents can also be displayed in XHTML 1.0 (.xhtml) format as well. This is perhaps preferred since it is the transitional markup language which allows for both XML syntax and backwards compatibility.

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