converting .doc and .docx to mac freidnly formats or possibly .html

I believe that Open Office can open docx formats.

Why don't you just use Microsoft Word?

Boy are you ungrateful. I gave you the most logical answer.

even M$ Word can not concert .doc and .docx into a decent html format, it always screws something, so when I open them in a browser they look creepy.

And you think a third party application can do better? Since .doc files are created by Word, there's probably no better app to make the conversion.

ilgaar wrote:
I've been looking for a good way to convert .doc and .docx and formats into a Mac friendly format

Microsoft Word runs on the Mac, and runs pretty well.

how can I convert .doc and .docx formats into html?

Anything that can open Word documents can re-save as HTML. The results are always underwhelming.

Thanks for suggesting Open Office, I have it already, but because .doc and .docx formats are proprietary and their sources are closed, I guess theses folks in the oracle had to use reverse engineering tactics in order to decipher these formats, as a result they are not perfect, and whenever I open a .doc or .docx document in Open office they look as crippled and screwed as if I converted them to html with MS Office trial version.

Actually, Word file formats are publicly available: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313105(v=office.12).aspx

If Open Office has problems with them, it is due to limitations in Open Office.

1. Because it is too expensive.

It is $115 for the world's leading office software. That is one of the least expensive professional applications you can buy.

2. Because I can not share documents with people who don't have M$ Products

Everyone has Office.

3. even M$ Word can not concert .doc and .docx into a decent html format, it always screws something, so when I open them in a browser they look creepy.

That is true. Why do you want to convert them to HTML anyway? Get Office and keep them in their original format.

Yes, I believe there are people out there smarter than MS Office creators, whom are smart enough to do that.

Dozens, at least 🙂

I just asked a question to find out if somebody knows something that I don't

The answer is yes.

I'm not gonna reply back to you if you are gonna promote using MS Office and discuss about what it can or can not do. thanks

Your reply, or lack thereof, is irrelevant. Other people who have similar questions will search for an answer and will find this thread. Even if you are too stubborn to accept the answer, those other people may not be.

ilgaar wrote:
1. Because it is too expensive.

Buy an older copy on ebay. I got '04 for $40.

Have them send it out as PDF.

Open Office works pretty will for me.

NeoOffice.app

http://www.neooffice.org

Robert

Pages (iWorks) opens .doc and .docx files just fine. You can save as .pages or export as: PDF, RTF, Plain Txt

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.