Hey, I'm wondering if any of you know how .doc (word) files are "formated"? More precisely, how could I take the styles from a .doc and convert them into css? I googled the thread's title to find a lot of pages but they all seem to talk about using MWWord to do the conversion. Basically I'd like to load the myDoc.doc in my program and have it return myDoc.html with valid html. This is for a newsletter written at work. I'd like to make my job easier by having the conversion done automatically instead of copy pasting the text to then format it using html tags. (if there's a "proper" term for this let me know and I could probably do the research on my own... I don't really know what to call this since I've never done something like this before.) Thanks, Seb

You could try opening it in Microsoft Word it self, and Saving As .html
Although this probably doesn't use CSS (I haven't tried recently), it will usually give a decent translation.
As for reading .doc files, try googling for the format, it is well documented.

Some program can do this work
you can do search it on www.download.com site.

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You could try opening it in Microsoft Word it self, and Saving As .html
Although this probably doesn't use CSS (I haven't tried recently), it will usually give a decent translation.[...]

Whatever you do, don't do this. It will generate HTML that is around 100 times larger than the text itself, and everything is specified using absolute units so that anybody that needs it larger or smaller is screwed. Changing the font size by editing the HTML isn't an option because it's VERY messy html (that is filled with non-standard tags), even 'tidy' (a program designed to clean up HTML files, with an option to deal with words junk) chokes on HTML generated by anything newer then word 2000.