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I tend to write most HTML documents in WORD'97 first by using a blank WebPage template. When I have got the page as I want it, for example tables, layout, alignment, font types, styles etc. I save the page then choose the "View HTML" option and edit the code from there, viewing it in IE5 as I go. Any inconsistency in HTML Tags can be changed and saved. This I have found to be the quickest and most effective way for simple HTML pages. Mary Evans UCLan (Preston, Lancs) ---------- From: Pauline McCormack To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Smart Text or HTML? Date: 22 May 2000 16:09 There are two options for posting text into a Blackboard course. The first is smart text which will understand carriage returns and paragraph breaks, but not formatting such as bold and italics. If you want bold, italics and different fonts you have to mark the entire text up in HTML and one of the easiest ways to do this is to save a word file as HTML. But then word doesn't write good HTML, for instance, replacing a line break with a paragraph break, which gives the HTML document a totally different look from the original word doc. If we use Blackboard we will probably import documents like our degree program handbooks, which are typically word documents, around 70-80 pages long and containing lots of tables. What's the solution to getting these into Blackboard easily, while retaining the original format? One suggestion I have heard is to save them in word as HTML then take the files into Dreamweaver and use their clean HTML option. Another is to have a production line facility whereby one person does all the markup/conversion. Neither of these options is feasible in our case. Does anyone have any other ideas or experiences whereby they tackled this problem? Thanks Pauline -------------------- Pauline McCormack Learning Technology Co-ordinator University of Newcastle upon Tyne www.ncl.ac.uk/ltan 191 222 5183 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%