Using Microsoft Word with WebTycho
Important: Make Microsoft Office Suite 2007 documents compatible with Microsoft Office Suite 2003 documents. If you and your fellow students or instructor are using a different version of Microsoft Office then you may be unable to open and read documents they have sent to you.
When pasting into WebTycho you must use Ctrl - c to copy, Ctrl - x to cut and Ctrl - v to paste. Or, you can highlight and right click Copy > right click Paste into the text box with the TFE.
COPY AND PASTE
Microsoft Word into WebTycho
PLAIN TEXT BOX: Formatting such as bold, italic, and font changes will not be saved. Apostrophes, quotation marks and other special characters turn into question marks. Before pasting into a Plain text Box, disable auto-formatting in Microsoft Word.
TFE: Text pasted into the TFE will retain basic (bold, italic, underline) formatting. Color, font and other special formatting may have to be recreated with the tools provided. Set your Account Preferences for Text Formatting Editor and paste into the text box.
Slow Copy and Paste from Microsoft Word?
When copying and pasting a large document from Microsoft Word it may take several minutes for your computer to copy the document to the clipboard. While the TFE is waiting to receive the text from MS Word it may seem that WebTycho and the TFE have timed out when in reality they have not. Please be patient for the data transfer from your computer into WebTycho.
WebTycho into Microsoft Word
- Copy text from a page in WebTycho using ctrl and c
- Open MS Word and click on the Edit menu at the top of the screen
- Click Paste Special (this is essential when using Internet Explorer)
- When the box appears, select Formatted Text (RTF)
- Click OK
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OTHER HELPFUL HINTS
Using Microsoft Word 2000 to Create HTML Documents
Microsoft Word 2000 can save documents as HTML, but when it does it often inserts extraneous code that can cause trouble in WebTycho. We recommend that after saving your document, run it through Microsoft's filter before cutting and pasting it into a WebTycho text box. You can download and install this filter from Microsoft. http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx
- First, download and install the filter http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx
- Open the document you want to filter.
- On the File menu, point to Export To and then click Compact HTML.
- There is also a toolbar button Export to Compact HTML to click on.
- To Copy and Paste after saving as HTML:
- Reminder: copy ONLY the HTML that is between the body tags
- Open saved HTML document.
- Right click, choose View Source
- Highlight and select code that is ONLY between body tags to copy.
- Right click, choose Copy (Cntr-c)
- Right click in the WebTycho text box for submission, choose Paste (Cntr-v)
Adding Comments to a Microsoft Word Document
- Open a document in Microsoft Word
- Select the passage of text that you wish to make a comment about.
- Go to Insert, and select Comment.
- A window will open in the bottom half of the window. Begin typing.
- You may choose to customize your text with color and typestyle.
- Enter.
- Then, move your mouse over the selected passage and you will see your comment appear above the text.
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