University Wisconsin-Madison Shelter Medicine Program: website docs

Copying from Word

If your source document is in MS Word, or Google Docs, or something similar, it’s very straightfroward to bring that content into the site. Just copy and paste!

No more embedded styles

If you’ve ever worked on a website before, you know that HTML tags, style tags, and other “hints” about how the text should look are often copied and pasted from word processing documents into sites. This is a huge hassle, causing typography to change and be inconsistent, and forcing the editor to go “behind the scenes” to remove the styling.

Because this text editor only handles structured content, this is never a problem. It will try to make a guess at your document structure when you paste. Bold, italics, lists, and links will be preserved.

It’s not perfect

You will, editor, need to review, update, and change headers and paragraphs.

The text editor won’t know what you what for different header levels, and sometimes inbound documents use bolding instead of headers (horrors!) — you’ll need to edit those to get them into proper shape.