When you save your Word document to HTML, MS Word creates multi-lines of code that Word can use to read the HTML tags. These bloated tags weigh down your HTML document to 3 or 4 times the size of clean code. Dreamweaver employs a feature that will strip away all the unnecessary code and create a nice, clean, lightweight document for you.

Here's the process:

1. Open the Word HTML file in Dreamweaver.
2. Select COMMANDS from the top menu (figure 1).
3. Select "Clean up Word HTML..." from the drop down menu (figure 2).
4. An error message may appear notifying you that dreamweaver was unable to determine the version of Word used to create the document. Just click "OK" and select the version of Word manually from the menu (figure 3).
5. Select all of the options (default) from menu that has opened.
6. Select "OK" and you're done!
   
   

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