While it is certainly possible to build a website or page with Microsoft Word, I don’t recommend it. But a lot of people have used this software to build web pages. I have built at least one page with Word, if only to teach people how to do it. :-) And honestly, if you have nothing else, Word might be a reasonably quick solution to get something live on a website.
Poll: Would you build a website or web page with Word?
By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com GuideDecember 8, 2011
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Word is absolutely the last editor I would use to create a web page or web site. There are very good free editors that are far better choices than Word, e.g. HTML-KIT. Word loads the HTML with garbage and bloats the page significantly, I have reduced web page file sizes from 30-50% by cleaning out the Word bloat.
I agree with Mike. Word adds too much to the site. And, this makes it extremely hard to edit using an editor like notepad.
I prefer editing in Notepad for on the fly web pages. After studying HTML for years, it is simple enough to throw a quick page together with tags intact in Notepad, making it seem excessive and superfluous to even consider using Word for anything beyond perhaps font face selection.
I agree with the other posters – Word is a terrible choice for anything except for text document creation. I’m a graphic designer, and all the time have to fix files that have been “designed” in Word to make them printable. I would never choose Word to create a webpage. I use notepad when I want to make quick changes to a page. Otherwise, Adobe Dreamweaver is tops!
Why use Word when there are far superior web editors built right into the operating system – NotePad for example on Windows is a million times a better web editor since you are going to have to convert the Word document to plain text in order to fix the markup for the web anyway.
Those HTML like tags that Word can produce are intended as a file format for transferring files between Microsoft office programs – 99% of the tags are just garbage as far as the web is concerned.