When you create a web page in Microsoft Word, Excel, or other product, the page contains proprietary information that allows the page to be reopened in the program that created it. When you import it into Expression Web, you get a whole lot of unnecessary code that will most likely conflict with the style information you’ve created for your site.

If you don’t create your pages in Expression Web, then this will happen. The way to prevent that from happening is to save the file as a text file. The problem is you lose all your formatting and will, most likely, have to reformat the information when you add it to your web site.

Although this process can be tedious, it does insure that the page will only contain the code pertinent to your site and the page will be formatted to conform with the other pages. It’s a no harm-no foul kind of thing!

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