How to Make a Website With Word

Co-authored by Tyrone Showers

Last Updated: February 19, 2026

While it is possible to generate an HTML page with Word, it's generally recommended that you do not do so if you intend for the page to be used in any professional or widely promotional capacity. Making your own website with Word is like building your own house with LEGO blocks: it works well enough if you don't have the expertise to do a proper job of it, don't want to buy new software or you're just playing around for your own amusement, but using the right tools or even hiring a professional will yield immeasurably better results if you need a professional website.

Word is made for creating paper documents, which have a fixed page size, typeface, and layout, whereas the page size, typeface and layout available to someone viewing your website may be completely different than yours. Because Word is purpose-built for fixed paper formatting, the web page code it creates is loaded with non-standard, paper-based styling which may not appear as you intend it to in any browsers other than Microsoft's own Internet Explorer.

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In Office 2007, click the Office button > Save As >Other Formats.
In 2007, change "Save as type" to "Web Page."
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This means that in a browser you can click that hyperlink and go to another page in your site.
You can add a hyperlink to another website - in the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog, in the "Address" text box, type the address of the web page.
Remember the information in the introduction.

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What mistake should I avoid when I create a website?

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Tyrone Showers is a Technologist and the Co-owner of Taliferro Group, an IT consulting company based in Seattle, Washington. With over 35 years of professional experience, he specializes in API Design, e-Commerce, Operational Efficiency, and website development. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from DeVry Institute of Technology.

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Don't try to make a beautiful website. Beautiful websites are detrimental to your business. A site that looks amazing with lots of images is annoying to use because the images are slow to load, they are not optimized, and if your site takes too long to load, your user, your potential client, or the buyer will go somewhere else.

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How do I publish my website I made with Word?

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You would have to find a piece of server software and put your files into the working directory where you want your web page and host it yourself, or you would have to pay for hosting from a provider like GoDaddy and upload the files there.

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How do I name my website?

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When you are saving your website, there should be a Change Title button below the File Type menu. Click that, and a dialog box will open asking you to enter a page title. This title will appear as the tab name when visiting the website in a web browser.

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Make your website attractive with lots of photos, links and information.

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Except for the index page, name the rest of your pages something you could remember.

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Learn something called HTML

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If you plan on putting up your site to the web, be careful not to include any personal information you don't intend to release in the document info.

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As noted in the article header, creating HTML with any Microsoft Office product other than Expression Web is generally a bad idea. Just because a program can save a file as HTML doesn't make it a web design software.

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