How can I copy Formating (Bold, Colors, Tables, etc.) into my Responses in WebTycho?
If you compose your work in a Microsoft Word File (.doc), when you copied the data into the Text area of the Response, the formatting from the Word file is not transferred to the Response (the data is transferred in text format [.txt] – no formatting). When you want to copy a formatted document into a Response, use one of the HTML generators such as Netscape Composer. I personally like Netscape Composer because it is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) composer. However, the spell and grammar check in Composer is week, so I usually compose the data in Word where I spell and grammar check it. I then copy the data from Word into Composer (surprisingly, tables copy as tables and URLs copy with their hot-links). Some additional tweaking may be necessary, but it’s usually minor. When copying the data into your Response, you need to click on the “Source” button at the bottom of the Composer screen, and then copy the source code without the Head or Body commands. When you submit the Resp
