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Welcome to the first public release beta version of Internet Assistant for Word 6.0 for Windows, an add-on product that will allow users to create, share, and explore documents for the Internet from within Microsoft Word versions 6.0a and later.Now anyone who knows Word can create documents for the Internet!
Internet Assistant is designed to make it easy for even the least experienced Internet users to author documents in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the standard format for documents on the World Wide Web. Internet Assistant allows any Microsoft Word user to create great-looking Internet documents without having to understand the complicated codes that traditionally have been associated with HTML authoring. Thanks to Internet Assistant's robust HTML file converter, creating an HTML document is now as easy as saving a file!
When users create documents for the Internet with Internet Assistant, they benefit from all of the IntelliSense technology that has made Word the world's best selling word processor. This means that features like AutoFormat and AutoCorrect will be at your fingertips as you compose documents for the Internet! Word's Spell Checker, Grammar Tool, and Thesaurus Tool works with Internet Assistant, too.
Internet Assistant's HTML editor eliminates the need for users to understand the complicated process of creating a Universal Resource Locator (URL). Creating a hyperlink in Word is as easy as two mouse clicks!
And finally, until now, HTML authors have had to switch between their authoring and Web browsing applications in order to see how their documents would appear when posted on the Internet. With Internet Assistant's dual browsing and editing functionality, users can create their documents in a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") environment.
Quarterdeck is also offering a beta version of a similar tool:
Quarterdeck's WebAuthor HyperText Markup Language (HTML) authoring tools for Word for Windows 6.0 provide a quick and easy way to create, edit, format and view hypertext multimedia documents in standard HTML format, without manual entry of HTML codes. The product allows users to employ the full power of their familiar Word for Windows software, ranging from import filters to spell check, thesaurus and WYSIWYG features, in working with documents intended for posting on the Internet's World Wide Web.WebAuthor functions as an "add-in" to Word 6.0 and is easily accessed through an on-screen toolbar. The tools do not require that the user understand HTML; anyone familiar with Word can create HTML documents. Graphics, forms and hypertext links can be added to documents simply by selecting objects on the product's toolbar, menus and dialogue boxes.
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