Yes, but this still produces extraneous markup and a lot of Word-specific tags, but it's much better.

Back to my first question: when I tried saving the unicode doctype utf-8 as default for all documents, it seems that Word doesn't do that; its default seems to be windows-1258 encoding. At least when I change the encoding and check the "Always use..." option, Word seems to revert to its built-in default. New documents saved as html are in windows encoding.

Can the change be made the permanent default? --Thanks.