Reputation: 3203

Best way to export html to Word without having MS Word installed?

Is there a way to export a simple HTML page to Word (.doc format, not .docx) without having Microsoft Word installed?

Upvotes: 16

Answers (10)

Biri

Reputation: 7181

If you have only simple HTML pages as you said, it can be opened with Word.

Otherwise, there are some libraries which can do this, but I don't have experience with them.

My last idea is that if you are using ASP.NET, try to add application/msword to the header and you can save it as a Word document (it won't be a real Word doc, only an HTML renamed to doc to be able to open).

Upvotes: 12

Amay Kulkarni

Reputation: 838

use this link to export to word, but here image wont work:

http://www.jqueryscript.net/other/Export-Html-To-Word-Document-With-Images-Using-jQuery-Word-Export-Plugin.html

Upvotes: 0

JasonPlutext

Reputation: 15863

If you are working in Java, you can convert HTML to real docx content with code I released in docx4j 2.8.0. I say "real", because the alternative is to create an HTML altChunk, which relies on Word to do the actual conversion (when the document is first opened).

See the various samples prefixed ConvertInXHTML. The import process expects well formed XML, so you might have to tidy it first.

Upvotes: 2

James Stallings

Reputation: 96

There is an open source project called HTMLtoWord that that allows users to insert fragments of well-formed HTML (XHTML) into a Word document as formatted text.

HTMLtoWord documentation

Upvotes: 3

Andrew Hancox

Reputation: 2340

There's a tool called JODConverter which hooks into open office to expose it's file format converters, there's versions available as a webapp (sits in tomcat) which you post to and a command line tool. I've been firing html at it and converting to .doc and pdf succesfully it's in a fairly big project, haven't gone live yet but I think I'm going to be using it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jodconverter/

Upvotes: 4

Joel Coehoorn

Reputation: 415735

If it's just HTML, all you need to do is change the extension to .doc and word will open it as if it's a word document. However, if there are images to include or javascript to run it can get a little more complicated.

Upvotes: 1