Why shouldn't I use Microsoft's Word for coding?

Basically because it is a word processor with the ability to export as HTML but does so poorly. Up to Word 97 the actual export was fairly straightforward but with Word 9/2000 the unwary could find themselves with massively bloated webpages with horrific code (it can be up to 2 or 3 times the size). This is because it adds non-WWW tags and styles so that you can go back and forward between Word and the HTML version. For an explanation and fix see the links below:

HTML Tidy

esp. the:

Word 2000 config

You can either use HTML Tidy or download the fix provided by Microsoft:

Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0

Now that you have fixed the problems caused by using MS Word get yourself a proper code editor:

Can you recommend a code editor?

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Emperor

(Added by: Emperor on Mon 10-Mar-2003)