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I'm working on a paper about how we [use styles](http://del.icio.us/ptsefton/usestyles) in the [ICE](http://ice.usq.edu.au/) system to structure and format documents for print and the web. To help define the problem and show why an ICE-like approach is needed I decided to see how far I got trying to format a paper for print and the web using out-of-the-box word processing tools. I covered this a little before when I [got cranky](http://ptsefton.com/blog/2005/10/31/why_do_i_keep_going_on_about_html_export_from_word_processors%3F) about the HTML export in OpenOffice.org, but I haven't eviscerated Microsoft Word's HTML export here in detail. So, here's the challenge. Can I take my recent paper, [An integrated approach to preparing, publishing, presenting and preserving theses](http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00002653/) for the ETD conference. I [wrote recently](http://ptsefton.com/blog/2007/05/15/etd_paper) about how I prepared this paper using ICE, meaning that of course I can produce both print and web versions, but how would I go using Word 2003 on Windows XP? Could I produce XHTML? This is, after all the year 2007 and the World Wide Web is in its late teens. (I didn't use Word 2007 because I don't have a copy, but I'll find one and try that too) The biggest challenge, I knew, would be getting stuff that looks OK on screen to export to the correct HTML elements. So here's the procedure: (I know this looks boring, but if you know a `