Best Word HTML Cleaner?

Mr E

Everyone knows that Microsoft Word produces junk HTML if you save a doc as HTML (usually tripling the size of the file in the process).

What do people recommend for stripping the junk out of it?

I googled, and there are lots of suggestions, but I want to know what you use.

BTW, ideally the solution would be free... (I use dreamweaver myself, but the person who needs it doesn't have access to DW)

Capt'n Midnight

Would be better to not garbage it up first.

OpenOffice does some HTML, I haven't tried publishing a word document with it but it can't be worse.

EDIT - Picked first doc google found on Microsoft.COM
saved as HTML by OO
http://research.microsoft.com/users/marycz/el.doc

Karoma

I haven't tested but I would imagine HTML Tidy (OSS) would do a very good job..

thetourist

my html kit ( which is an awsome - and free- program in the first place ) has in the actions-> tools menu "strip surplus tags from word 2000 pages" -- my version is 5.1 - i have used it in the past and as far as i can remember it works ok

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

thetourist

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Would be better to not garbage it up first.

OpenOffice does some HTML, I haven't tried publishing a word document with it but it can't be worse.

EDIT - Picked first doc google found on Microsoft.COM
saved as HTML by OO
http://research.microsoft.com/users/marycz/el.doc

very interesting

had a look at the source - there's no where near the ammount of crap ms spits out

AARRRGH

Don't forget http://validator.w3.org

Lovely for cleaning up your HTML.