ilgaar wrote:
It might not be expensive for you, but I'm a student and as a result totally broke!
As a student, you can buy it for only $99.95
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/office-academic
But check with your campus bookstore. They might have volumes licenses that are much, much cheaper.
That's not true, not everyone has MS Office, I know dozens of people who don't or use other Office Programs. but it might be true about the people you know.
Like it or not, Office is "the standard". When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft has definitely played dirty over the years. With Office, they won fair and square. Plus, Office has always been Mac-friendly. Excel was originally written for the Mac.
Why? because I want to edit them in html format, because I want to make templates out of them, like email stationery, web templates and so on.
Go ahead and give that up now. The best you can do is copy the plain text out of Word and build the HTML by hand. I have tried this many, many times and have always given up. I have never found anything that can generate decent HTML from Word. Actually, what I do is copy the text into XML and reapply em and strong tags to match the original formatting. Then add other html-friendly tags. I can use xslt to transform that to html or even ePub. In fact, I did just that with my wife's textbook. People who used fancy, expensive tools like InDesign had messy, complicated documents that have display problems in iBook 1.2. My ePub source is very clean and still looks great.
Yes and that is the whole point of a good community. and no I'm not stubborn to accept an answer, it is just that solution is not available for me.
You're civil and you met me halfway - that's pretty good and I appreciate it.
Check your school bookstore to see if you can get a cheap copy of Office. If not, try using Open Office or
other tools to extract just the text and convert it into something more portable. I did a 282 page book that way, so I know it's tedious. But all the automated tools try too hard to retain all the formatting and the end result looks very close to the original, but is unreadable as source.