Save as a web page - lists are not saved allways with UL or OL html tag

Question

I am getting documents created by other people that contain lists like this:

• List item 1
• List item 2

I need to convert them to HTML and I use Save as web page in Word. There is a problem that some lists are converted to <ul><li> tags but some are converted to

· List Item 1 
· List Item 2 

with this · strange dot character and no <ul> tag.

<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span
style='font-family:Symbol'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>56464</span></p>

Link to a sample document that produces this behavior.

The only relevant difference between the two lists that I can see is that the second (problematic) list has another style set in the styles dialog on the ribbon bar.

The first has Normal style and the second has Paragraph with a list style. I am unable in Word 2013 to create the list with Normal style - do not know, how it was created.

Is there a trick how to fix this behavior?

Answer 1

Seems like You have a different formatting styles in the doc.

<w:p w:rsidR="00BD738A" w:rsidRPr="00BD738A" w:rsidRDefault="00BD738A" w:rsidP="00CE27F3">
    <w:pPr>
        <w:numPr>
            <w:ilvl w:val="0"/>
            <w:numId w:val="1"/>
        </w:numPr>
        <w:jc w:val="both"/>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:rFonts w:ascii="Times New Roman" w:hAnsi="Times New Roman"/>
        </w:rPr>
    </w:pPr>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellStart"/>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:rFonts w:ascii="Times New Roman" w:hAnsi="Times New Roman"/>
            <w:szCs w:val="20"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>ssssss</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellEnd"/>
</w:p>

=========

<w:p w:rsidR="00BD738A" w:rsidRDefault="00BD738A" w:rsidP="00BD738A">
    <w:pPr>
        <w:pStyle w:val="Odstavecseseznamem"/>
        <w:numPr>
            <w:ilvl w:val="0"/>
            <w:numId w:val="3"/>
        </w:numPr>
        <w:jc w:val="both"/>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:rFonts w:ascii="Times New Roman" w:hAnsi="Times New Roman"/>
        </w:rPr>
    </w:pPr>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellStart"/>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:rFonts w:ascii="Times New Roman" w:hAnsi="Times New Roman"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t>rrrrr</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:proofErr w:type="spellEnd"/>
</w:p>

You can see the difference between these two XML blocks.

What i did was, changed the document extension .docx to .zip and extracted it.

In side the extracted folder there is a folder called word.

There is an XML file called document.xml contains your document body contents.

Solution: I selected the first part in the word document.

XXX:  
•   Aaaa
•   ssssss
•   xxxxxxx

and used the format painter tool to format the sescond part.

Nabízíme: 
•   rrrrr
•   asas klůsddlůask asdkllůasdklůasdklů asdlkasdlůkasdlůkadlůk asdlkasdlůasdklůasdklů  asdlkasdlůkasdlůkasdlůkasdk
•   asasasas
•   5 45464564
•   56464
•   87989789

and then saved it as HTML. The problem was solved.

You can try this if it is convenient for you.