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Google's Serendipitous Uses
Derrick Story has a nifty tip for using GMail to convert Word docs to HTML. Just send it as an attachment to your GMail account and then select “View as HTML” next to the attachment. I just tried it with this Word doc and got this HTML document. Very nice.
Now, if someone would just get around to building a tool that you drag a Word doc onto and it uses GMail to convert it to HTML and deposit the result in the same directory, that would be awesome.
Posted by windley on May 30, 2006 9:19 PM
Comment from Arun at May 31, 2006 2:30 AM
or you could just save the word doc as html
Comment from Phil Windley at May 31, 2006 8:13 AM
Yes, but the HTML is unusable. The evils of MS Word's HTML save are legendary.
Comment from bruce fryer at May 31, 2006 10:01 PM
Bring it up to Berlind. One his mashup followers should have done this.
Comment from delegatrix at June 1, 2006 2:24 PM
File size is a consideration. I did a test with a simple document and Word created a 60k file while Google created a 7k file. The files displayed nearly the same in browsers.
Comment from Tony Byrne at June 2, 2006 3:50 PM
I tried a couple of Word files and Google produced reasonably clean code. The one downer: tags in lieu of MS-specific styles...
Thanks for pointing this out, Phil.