# How to upload a MS-Word Web Page to the net (simple question for most people...) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 6, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-upload-a-ms-word-web-page-to-the-net-simple-question-for-most-people/85814 "2001-10-06T19:31:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saudade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@saudade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saudade)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-upload-a-ms-word-web-page-to-the-net-simple-question-for-most-people/85814/1 "2001-10-06T19:31:50Z")
…but I have no clue about how it’s done. If I make a HTML webpage on Microsoft Word, how can I upload it to the internet? I tried it earlier and couldn’t quite get it done. I don’t know whether to use Geocities, Tripod, or something else. ---
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-upload-a-ms-word-web-page-to-the-net-simple-question-for-most-people/85814/2 "2001-10-06T21:09:03Z")
Don’t make HTML with Word. Word throws in all kinds of extra coding that makes the files sizes indecently huge. I have had Word-HTML files go from 50K down to 3 after I redid them properly. What you should do, is make up your document in Word, and save as Rich Text Format (.rtf). You can then import that into a WYSIWYIG HTML editor, and avoid the masses of useless tags that Word to HTML will put in. ---
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-upload-a-ms-word-web-page-to-the-net-simple-question-for-most-people/85814/3 "2001-10-06T21:10:43Z")
Sorry, I should answer your question too! I can’t recommend where to host it; that’s up to you, and depends on other factors. Once you have figured out WHERE, the how is to get a program like CuteFTP or WS-FTP that can FTP (File Transfer Protocol) the HTML and other files to the site. These two FTP programs are really easy to use. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-upload-a-ms-word-web-page-to-the-net-simple-question-for-most-people/85814/4 "2001-10-07T05:07:18Z")
Actually, it may be better for you to save your file as a txt file (if you’re using wordpad, etc.). As for uploading it, I would assume that the free web page services you provided will have their own FTP-ish uploading utility. I know for a fact that geocities does. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-upload-a-ms-word-web-page-to-the-net-simple-question-for-most-people/85814/5 "2001-10-07T15:48:44Z")
Get Netscape, its free, it comes with Composer. Copy your word doc & paste it into composer as a page. Use the pupbish feature & itll post it on the web for you. Of course you have a web site right? You really should find someone to do it for you if you can. Maybe one of the users could just post it on their site for you & you can link to that?