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Copying from MS Word

By ncwadmin
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

If you copy/paste text from an MS Word file into New CourseWorks, you will end up with unwanted formatting characters throughout the document.

Workaround

Choose one of these workarounds.

  • Use the New CourseWorks Paste from Word button
    1. Copy the text from your MS Word document.
    2. Click the Paste from Word button in New CourseWorks.
    3. Paste the text in the editing window and
      save.
  • Use Windows Notepad or MacOS TextEdit
    1. Copy the text from your MS Word document.
    2. Paste the text into a new Windows Notepad or MacOS TextEdit document and save.
    3. Copy the text from the saved NotePad/TextEdit document into New CourseWorks.
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