The New Technologies Used in Word 2000 Web Pages

Whenever you save a Word document as a Web page or build a new Web page in Word 2000, you are building a page of HTML source code that can be read by a browser and interpreted by the browser to display the various elements in the Web page. As described earlier, traditional HTML code is now being supplemented by four other technologies (XML, CSSs, VML, and scripting languages) in Word 2000.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Word 2000's new scripting technologies have some advantages and disadvantages. The advantages include

  • Web pages can now contain almost anything that a Word document can.

  • It no longer matters whether you save a file as .doc or as .html; a document looks the same in Word 2000 as it does ...

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