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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//SQ//DTD HTML 2.0 + all extensions//EN" "hmpro3.dtd">
+
+<HTML>
+
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>MSWordView</TITLE>
+</HEAD>
+
+<BODY>
+<P>Up to <A HREF="pctotex.html">Converters from PC Textprocessors to LaTeX -
+Overview</A></P>
+<H1>MSWordView</H1>
+<P>last update: July 28, 1998</P>
+<P>MSWordView is a program that can understand the microsofts word 8 binary
+file format (office97), it currently converts word into html, which can then be
+read with a browser. </P>
+<P>See <A
+HREF="http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html">http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html</A>
+</P>
+<P>Current Features include</P>
+<UL>
+<LI>ability to understand fastsaved files as well as non-fastsaved files. </LI>
+<LI>conversion of word header paragraph style into appropiate header levels of
+html. </LI>
+<LI>conversion of font attributes such as italic, bold and font size into html
+tags </LI>
+<LI>conversion of word tables into html tables. </LI>
+<LI>conversion of ms symbol and wingding font into gif pics for html output, so
+math done directly in word shows up fairly alright, note <B>not</B> equation
+editor, thats an ole embedded type </LI>
+<LI>encoding of non-west-european ascii languages into utf-8 encoding, which
+should work with at least netscape. </LI>
+<LI>some understanding of lists, lists are suprisingly difficult. </LI>
+<LI>slightly less understanding of headers and footers. </LI>
+</UL>
+<P>Non Supported Features include</P>
+<UL>
+<LI>text justification </LI>
+<LI>embedded graphics or other embedded types </LI>
+<LI>guaranteed proper handling of headers and footers </LI>
+<LI>fully correct conversion of tab stops and other formatting done by the user
+done with whitespace </LI>
+<LI>correct conversion of lists, all lists become bullet pointed lists
+(&lt;ul&gt;) </LI>
+<LI>word 6 and 7 etc arent currently supported, just word 8. mswordview cant
+understand these formats as they're somewhat different. </LI>
+</UL>
+<P>Defects are </P>
+<UL>
+<LI>mswordview uses laola to extract the ole streams from the document, and on
+occasion laola cant cope with some files, i.e corrupt docs and some large docs.
+</LI>
+</UL>
+<HR>
+<P>This HTML page is part of the texcnv site.<BR>
+Copyright &copy; 1998, 1999 Wilfried Hennings<BR>
+You may copy and redistribute it under the following conditions:</P>
+<UL>
+<LI>it must remain intact and the contents unchanged; if you'd like to have
+something changed, contact me instead. Reformatting (e.g. from HTML to some
+other presentation format) is granted as long as the contents are unchanged.
+</LI>
+<LI>you may NOT ask money for it except a reasonable cost for media and
+distribution</LI>
+</UL>
+</BODY>
+</HTML>
+