How do I copy text from a Word document (or email message) into WebLearn?
There are a few options here. Use this wonderful website to clean up the text: http://word2cleanhtml.com/. If you are on a PC, there is a nice free utility called PureText, which removes formatting from text – it runs in the background and instead of pressing Control-V to paste, you press Windows-V if you want to strip out HTML tags. Free download from http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ . (Thanks to Sonya Powney (Learning Resources Developer, The Royal Veterinary College) for this information.) The WYSIWYG editor has a special ‘Paste from Word’ facility – this is a clipboard icon with the ‘Blue W’ Word icon overlaid. This will retain formatting including which fonts to use. Whereas this may initially sound like a good idea, the text will use MS Word fonts which may not be available to all users, also the pages will almost certainly look different to other pages in WebLearn as a different style will be used. If a particular font is not available then the editor may try to be clever an
