Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Saving Web Pages

If you started your Web page from a blank Web page, as described at the beginning of this section, all you have to do to save it is press ⌘-S or choose File → Save or Save As. However, you can also save a standard Word document or template as a Web page, like so:

1. Choose File→ “Save as Web Page”.

   The Save dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 9-10

2. Click one of the radio buttons depending on how you’d like to save the file.

   The Save entire file into HTML option creates a dual-purpose document. It stores the information both for display on the Web and for returning to it as a Word document. Such word processor–only elements as headers and footers, comments, page numbers, and page breaks will reappear when you open it again in Word.

   

   Figure 9-10. Top: When you choose File → “Save as Web Page”, a Save dialog box opens, all set to save the document in HTML format. When you post the resulting files and folders online, be sure to preserve their folder structure on your Web server. For example, don’t dump your HTML file into the folder containing your graphics. Create a matching folder online to hold the graphics. Bottom: The Web Options dialog box is the same one that opens if you click Web Options on the Word → Preferences → General tab. There you can add keywords so that Web search engines like Google and Yahoo have a better chance of finding your page among the millions of others. ...