Moving content from MS Word
When you copy content from Microsoft word (or Open Office or any number of other word processors) the clipboard is filled with all the formatting details of that content as well. Bold, underline, italics and a hundred more obscure settings are copied as well. Some of these formats don't translate very well into HTML and others have been intentionally disallowed because they conflict with the website's theme.
If you're having trouble getting content to look right the best way to move it is to copy it into a text editor with no formatting. A good example of this is the windows notepad (note: NOT Wordpad!).
Steps (for windows machines)
Start in MS Word (or your word processor of choice)
- Select the text you wish to copy.
- Copy it using Ctrl-C or from the edit menu
- Go to Start-> Programs and find notepad
OR
Go to Start -> run and type "notepad.exe" (without quotes) and hit enter - paste your text into notepad
- Select all the text in notepad and copy it again. This time it will be copied in plain text without the extra formatting
- Paste into the UAEM website.
- Add back all your formatting using the editor inside the website.
Steps for Mac Users
Repeat the steps above except the program you want to use instead of notepad is called textpad.
Advanced steps
You can make your life a little easier and keep some of the simplet formatting like bold, italics etc. if you save your content in RTF format first. This isn't guaranteed to work 100% of the time though so if you run into trouble here or you don't know what rtf format is you can always use the above steps.
