Make a Website With Word

While it is possible to generate an HTML page with Word, it's generally recommended that you do not do so if you intend for the page to be used in any professional or widespread manner. Making your own website with Word is like building your own house with LEGO blocks: it works well enough if you don't have the expertise to do a proper job of it, but using the right tools or hiring a professional will yield immeasurably better results.

Word is made for creating paper documents, which have a fixed page size, typeface, and layout, whereas the page size, typeface and layout available to someone viewing your website may be completely different than yours. Because Word is purpose-built for fixed paper formatting, the web page code it creates is loaded with non-standard, paper-based styling which may not appear as you intend it to in any browsers other than Microsoft's own Internet Explorer.

Steps

  1. Load Word.
  2. Type "Homepage" into the page.
  3. Click File > Save as Webpage. In Office 2007, click the Office button > Save As >Other Formats.
  4. Save your page as index.html. In 2007, change "Save as type" to "Web Page."
  5. You will see now that the page doesn't look like a normal Word document - you are now in web layout mode.
  6. Add some additional text; try typing "This is my home page."
  7. Save your work frequently (just click the save icon - Word will remember it's a web page.)
  8. Do the same to make the other pages (keep reading to make a hyperlink).
  9. Type "Link to homepage" under the text.
  10. Highlight the text.
  11. Click Insert > Hyperlink (All versions.)
  12. Find index.html.
  13. When you find it, select it and click OK.
  14. Note that you have just created a hyperlink. This means that in a browser you can click that hyperlink and go to another page in your site.
  15. You can add a hyperlink to another website - in the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog, in the "Address" text box, type the address of the web page.
  16. Keep doing this until your website is complete!
  17. Good job making your website. Remember the information in the introduction.

Tips

  • Except for the index page, name the rest of your pages something you could remember.
  • Make your website attractive with lots of photos, links and information.
  • Learn something called HTML
  • Look around the Web for some simple web sites that match what you are trying to make. Also, you can't make a dynamic website like WikiHow or MSN.com in Word or Publisher - it is VERY advanced. (PHP, Client-Site Includes, ASP.NET, and more.)
  • It is much easier to do it in Publisher, and there are special web page designers out there.
  • Get Hosting - No one can see your site until it is on the web, there are free hosting sites, and there are really simple hosting sites, also professional paid services.

Warnings

  • If you plan on putting up your site to the web, be careful not to include any personal information you don't intend to release in the document info.
  • As noted in the article header, creating HTML with any Microsoft Office product other than Expression Web is generally a bad idea. Just because a program can save a file as HTML doesn't make it a web design software.

Things You'll Need

  • Computer
  • Microsoft Office Word (all versions)

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