WD98: Style Changes Not Retained with HTML Styles

• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you create a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document in Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition, any customization of HTML styles are not retained when you save, close and reopen the file, or when you view the document in a Web browser. The text formatted with HTML styles reverts to the default HTML style format.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design. When a document that contains text formatted with any of the HTML styles is saved as HTML, Word only saves the HTML tag of the style and does not save any attributes of the style.

MORE INFORMATION

HTML styles are retained in the HTML code as heading tags. For example, the HTML code for text formatted with the H1 style would look like this:

   <H1>This is my heading</H1>

Therefore, if you modify the HTML styles in Word, the changes will appear on screen, but are not preserved when you save the document as HTML.

The following HTML styles do not retain any changes you make to the style:

   H1 through H6
   Blockquote
   Cite
   Code
   Comment
   Definition
   Definition Term
   Definition List
   HTML Markup
   Keyboard
   Preformatted
   Sample
   Typewriter
   Variable
   Emphasis
   Followed Hyperlink
   Hyperlink
   Strong

How to Retain Formatting in HTML Documents

To retain formatting in an HTML Document, use either of the following methods:

• Format your documents using styles other than HTML styles. When you save the document as HTML, Word converts any text not formatted with the HTML styles to the Normal style, and converts any formatting to direct formatting.

  -or-

• Apply direct formatting to the text defined with the HTML style.

REFERENCES

For more information about styles and HTML, click the Office Assistant, type "styles HTML," click Search, and then click one of the topics.