Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes four document-to-page conversion utilities that can transform Microsoft Office Word documents, Word documents with macros, Microsoft Office InfoPath forms, and XML documents into standard Web pages that can be published on an internal or external site.

 Note    Several other InfoPath converters are available to convert InfoPath forms into images, but they cannot be configured.

Document-to-page converters are useful for enabling people in your organization to create documents in a familiar program and then publish them as Web pages within a site collection. Document converters are associated with specific document content types. Site managers can configure how documents are converted into Web pages based on the content type to which they belong. For example, if you have a document content type named Case Studies and another document content type called Press Releases, you can configure the document converters differently for each one.

Site administrators can configure the following components of document-to page-converters:

Inheritance   Content types that are based on a parent content type either can inherit conversion settings from the parent or can have unique conversion settings.

Page layout   You can choose any page layouts that are applicable to a site collection for the converted documents.

Text placement    You can specify the page-layout field in which the content is placed.

Text styles   Style definitions that are associated with the document can be kept after the conversion. Or the style definitions can be removed so that text styles can be defined by a .css file to get a consistent look and feel across different documents.

Page Location    You can specify a site in which to place the converted documents for each content type. You can also prevent users from changing this setting when they convert documents to pages.

Conversion schedule   Documents can be converted immediately, while the user waits for the results, or they can be converted in the background with lower priority. In the second case, the user is returned to the document library where the conversion was started. Users can be prevented from changing this setting when they convert documents to pages.

InfoPath template view   For InfoPath-to-page conversions only, you can select the view of the InfoPath form template to use in the conversion.

XSL stylesheet    For XML-to-page conversions, you need to designate the XSL stylesheet that matches the XML schema.

1. On the home page for the site collection, click Site Actions, point to Site Settings, and then click Modify All Site Settings.
2. On the Site Settings page, in the Galleries section, click Site content types, and then select the content type for which you want to define the conversion settings.
3. On the Site Content Type page, click Manage document conversions for this content type.
4. Click Configure next to the converter that you want to configure.
5. For content types that inherit settings from a parent, in the Inheritance section, click Define unique settings for this content type.

   This option is unavailable for root content types (such as Document).

6. For XML-to-page conversions only, click Browse to find the XSL stylesheet to use in the conversion. You need to designate the XSL stylesheet that matches the XML schema.
7. For InfoPath-to-page conversions only, click Browse to find the InfoPath form template, and then in the View list, select the view to use for the conversion.
8. In the Page layout list, select a page layout to use to convert the document.
9. In the Field for converted document contents list, select where you want the body contents of the document to be placed. The list includes all of the HTML fields in the selected content-type layout. Select a field that will render the content correctly.
10. Determine whether you want to use the styles of the originating document or remove the styles and use the styles that are associated with the page layout.
    • To remove the styles from the converted document, click Remove CSS <styles> section from the converted HTML.
    • To keep the text styles, click Store CSS <styles> section from the converted HTML in the following field, and then select the field in which to apply the cascading style sheet. Make sure that you select a field in which the cascading style sheet will be read correctly.
11. In the Location section, determine which site you want the pages created in. The site that you select must have the publishing feature enabled. Select the Set a default site for creating pages check box, and then click Browse to identify the location.

    To prevent users from placing the converted documents in another location, select the Do not allow users to change this setting when they create pages check box.

12. In the Processing section, determine whether you want pages to be created immediately after they are converted or to be converted in the background while the user is completing another task.
    • To have document conversion take place immediately (high priority), create Create pages one at a time
    • To start conversion in the background (low priority) while the user is completing another task, click Create pages in the background.
    • To prevent users from changing these settings, select the Do not allow users to change this setting when they create pages check box.