[Jim] uses Word to document his technical projects, and wanted an easy way to generate web pages. Not only is Word-generated HTML nearly unreadable, [Jim] notes there are known bugs, as well.

By default, Word 2016, as well as Word 365, saves the page with a ".htm" file extension, but you can change this to ".html" if you prefer. Both extensions work as HTML files.

How to Edit HTML in Word. As you manage your business, learning a complicated Web authoring tool may just be one ball too many. If you are a Microsoft Word user, you can still edit HTML files in ...

When you save the MS Word document as a webpage, then it in saved with the extension .htm and the format is HTML. When you click on this HTML file, it will open with your default browser.