Why you shouldn’t use Word for HTML

It’s tempting to use Word for HTML. After all it’s easy to use Word, even easier to copy and paste into word and make formatting changes.

However the downfall is that Word adds a lot of redundant HTML code which is not only irrelevant and difficult to follow but it may be completely unreadable and not work on your web page, HTML viewers, or with Ivanti Email Notifications. In other words, it won’t be WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get).

You will want to use a WYSIWYG HTML editor such as Brackets and clean up your HTML if you’re using word as the source with https://wordhtml.com/

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