Side-tracked.

[hannah]

Does anyone know of any tips, tricks, programs, or websites that can convert Word documents to HTML? I could manually go through each chapter and add italics where needed, but it's a lot of chapters and I'd like to automate the process if possible.

In the absence of a gym visit - no reasons today, just excuses - I did a reasonable circuit with a thirty-pound dumbbell. I also hustled around for about an hour cleaning my apartment, helped someone move a desk armoire, and walked about two miles. It's not a full-on workout with 30 minutes of cardio topped off with a visit to the steam room, but it's enough I don't feel like I spent the day doing nothing but sitting.

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[tassosss]

My trick is to use the AO3 text editor. Put your story in the box - check the formatting, save to draft. Then the next time you open the edit page, the text editor in HTML mode should have all the paragraph tags in there.

I do handcode italics as a matter of course when I type, so if you have those in your doc you may need to search them out and put [em] or [i] tags on them. Scene breaks and stuff can be Find & Replaced with [hr/]. I haven't experimented with how much the rich text editor will take straight from your Word doc when you copy it over, since I use a different word processor, but you should be able to do a quick test.

[naye]

Some kind soul has made a posting script for AO3. It's a Google Doc you save a copy of and follow the instructions. Having never done so I don't know how well it works, but here's a link so you can have a look:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19eZnBQ4989Dr17v2ODFgE8QWAo9Oahi4USDNS3hOSvM/edit?usp=drivesdk

[jadelennox]

Word's native save as HTML is ridiculously busy, but in a pinch it is very simple.

[isis]

I use astolat's macro! (I will add that I actually use LibreOffice, not Word, but I assume the Word one works similarly.) https://astolat.livejournal.com/157513.html