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Does FrontPage create HTML from Word files? I'm talking about software manuals that can easily run to over 100 pages, and they need to be provided in both HTML and PDF formats. Can FrontPage do that from Word files? There's no way I'm going to write and develop large manuals using what is essentially an HTML editor, obviously.
Ah, you are dointg that kind of work. I assumed websites, my mistake. Of course, neither Word or FrontPage was designed for this.
BTW, AFAIK, my Office installation does not include FrontPage, so my statement remains true.
Mine did. I bought the Professional Suite.
Again, I am simply saying that in some areas Linux is lacking. Linux has some great features. Heck, it is what I use, but really, saying that HTML in WORD sucks so Office sucks is not very bright. (Sorry, there's JUST no other way to out it.)
What I said was that "Office's facilities for outputting in HTML suck the big one." I did not say that Office sucks, even if I was thinking it at the time. :-)
It does suck. I won't say it doesn't. It's too big. But it is the office standard and it is the only format accepted where I work, so...
Use the right tool for the right job.
If Office provided it, I would!
There was a product for Windows that does what you need, Robo something or the other. Never did get to hot and heavy for HTML, sorry.
But read my entire message.
But you said, "While I agree that it is overkill for most, the fact is that MS Office has what you want when you need it." That is, at best, a gross overstatement, and at worst simply an untruth. MS Office DOES NOT have what we want when we need it. THAT's a fact.
No MS Office doesn't have what you need, it has what many need making it the best selling Office suite in the world even though it is bloated software with a bloated price. That is a fact.