If you have a Microsoft Word document you want to format for the Web, do not post it online until you have use the Textism Word HTML Cleaner. Word is notorious for adding a ton of funky text formatting to .DOC files. Converting those files in Word by saving them as HTML only makes matters worse. All this extra formatting can make your text display badly and it's guaranteed to greatly increase the size of your page, ultimately slowing down page load times and creating a lousy experience for many users. I use Microsoft Word and I've almost never used the feature of Word that re-formats text to HTML because it's simply to awful. Word HTML Cleaner fixes this problem for free. Simply save your current Word document as Web Page using the Save As dialog in Microsoft Word, find the new Web Page document on your hard drive in the Word HTML cleaner dialog box, hit process and you'll have a kinder, gentler version of your file ready for posting to the Web minus all the messy formatting. Your readers will thank you. It's Web-based so it works with both Mac and Windows.
Thanks to Business Know-How for the tip.
