I apologize for calling you a "shill". Please understand that I've spent an extremely stressful morning thanks to Word, and this is my way of taking out my aggravation in a non-violent way. That said, I'd be genuinely interested in ANY sort of explanation for the utter horrendousness of the HTML I'm forced to scrub on a regular basis.
FYI your lot in life isn’t based on the rich man putting you down.
If you're implying that I'm jealous of Bill Gates, I ain't. My girlfriend is a lot hotter than Melinda, and I have a lot more free time than him. I wouldn't want to switch places.
Word is not an HTML editor, and HTML is a constantly evolving markup language. “Save as HTML” is limited, at best.
Assuming that the HTML is intended for a web page, I would suggest embedding an editable area in the web page so that the employee can edit it directly online, bypassing Word altogether. There are many good “editable area” scripts around, for free or very little money, which have interfaces which mimic Word and are therefore familiar to the user (no training necessary).
Personally, I don’t have a problem with clients asking me to convert Word documents into HTML, because they pay me to do so.