I have a chance to try the feature Document Conversion of SharePoint Server 2007. It works pretty well. All formats are preserved. I used to copy text directly from a word document to a Publishing Page, which was ok not but great: It added an additional line to each paragraph. this Word Document to Web Page conversion does not leave an extra line so I say it is better.

However I encoutered a problem when I tried to update my original word document by uploading a new version. The following error is through: Isn’t it supposed to update the existing web page as well by adding a new version? According to Microsoft, it should. I suspect there is a bug here. When a new version is added, the relationship between Source and Destination Document breaks. The data (of Destination) is erased when source document is updated.

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There is another way to bypass this bug though. The destination document still contains data of the relationship, you can go another way around by updating Web Page from its source. Simply go to the Web Page converted from the word document, click Edit, then from the top edit bar, choose Update Content From Source.

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