I'm have a tough time getting my HTML that I am pasting into word to be converted to the proper styles I want. My HTML includes: dt , dd , h1 - h7 , p , li , ul . etc. dt and dd are not working. Word thinks they are paragraphs and applies the "Normal" style to them. h1 - h7 work great. li works great. What can I put into word so that when I paste in these dt & dd they will select a proper style? EDIT: I certainly appreciate the responses received so far, however nobody has really answered this yet. I cannot decide what the export medium is for this job, as I am not the decision maker. The requirement is MS Word files. There will be headers and footers, page numbering and a table of contents to the project, but whenever I paste HTML into Word the same problem happens: certain tags are styled and others are ignored. My guess is that this is a deficiency/bug in MS Word, so I will go ahead and open a ticket with Microsoft.
7,416 23 23 gold badges 46 46 silver badges 53 53 bronze badges asked May 18, 2012 at 15:27 201 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badgesWhy would you do that? Word isn't meant for that. It tries to do it (HTML mail anyone) and fails miserably.
Commented May 18, 2012 at 15:30 MS Word is a definite no no for making html. Use a free program like notepad++ Commented May 18, 2012 at 15:34Word will assign classes to styles. If you are trying to create a formatted Word document using HTML, this may help.
Commented May 18, 2012 at 15:36Remou: so if there is a style in Word that has a class name that matches it should apply the style? This is hugely helpful if that's gonna work!