ho do you view the source of a page in ms word on mac

#HO DO YOU VIEW THE SOURCE OF A PAGE IN MS WORD ON MAC ZIP FILE#
#HO DO YOU VIEW THE SOURCE OF A PAGE IN MS WORD ON MAC CODE#

I have posted a template that shows how that might be done at . It is possible to display *something* by copying the document or selection to the clipboard, then fetching the HTML encoding from the clipboard and displaying it in a dialog box. Perhaps the old Script Editor? I believe that was 'unlinked' from the product after Word 2003 and I think ditched altogether when Word 2010 came out. I wondered what you were using before to display Word HTML. As computer scientists we are trained to communicate with the dumbest things in the world – computers – so you’d think we’d be able to communicate quite well with people. There is no simple way to directly access XML (or HTML) inside of Word.

The point is, DOCX files are complex structures of files and subfolders. And even that was a 'secret' that MS didn't really share publicly.Ī few geeks figured it out and spread the word. MS feels if you need the XML, you can unzip the file and access it. So MS has not bothered to provide direct access to it. Most (99,99999%) Office users don't care about the underlying XML/HTML. Xmlns:wp='' xmlns:w10='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word' xmlns:w='' xmlns:w14 Xmlns:r='' xmlns:m='' xmlns:v='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml' xmlns:wp14='' the zip are a bunch of standard folders containing the various bits and bobs.

#HO DO YOU VIEW THE SOURCE OF A PAGE IN MS WORD ON MAC ZIP FILE#

ZIP file extension (rather than remove the DOCX and replace it with ZIP).

#HO DO YOU VIEW THE SOURCE OF A PAGE IN MS WORD ON MAC CODE#

As Jay pointed out the DOCX is actually a renamed ZIP format file, that contains a bunch of text only 'XML' code files that can be easily read by any text editor (ie Wordpad). Even if you opened it in a hex editor, the file was still essentially unreadable. If you opened one in a text editor, it was unreadable. A loose equivalent to a compiled program. The old 'DOC' format files were 'binary'. Lets take a high level look at some Word history. I prefer 'Web Page, Filtered', it removes a lot of redundant carp that otherwise Word would put in the straightĪfter that you could copy HTML to paste elsewhere. Although DOCX files are structured by XML, you do have the option of using File > Save As to save them to HTML format. Exactly how did you do that? What version of Word, and how did you do it. You say you 'cut and paste the HTML from old word docs'.

As Jay said, there is no HTML in Word documents.

Ho do you view the source of a page in ms word on mac