Outdoor Ed provides several methods for entering HTML formatted text into your documents. However, there are certain things you should know when cutting and pasting text from your word processor. Certain special characters in your word processor won't come across properly (things like curly quotes, em-dashes, bullets and other characters). These are specially encoded characters in programs like Microsoft Word which don't exist in HTML and a simple cut and paste results in formatting errors (for example the Web page replaces the apostrophe with a question mark).
There are several approaches to getting the correct formatting.
1. Cut and paste from Word and then modify the special characters.
| Change this | To This |
| “ | " |
| ” | " |
| ’ | ' |
| ‘ | " |
| — | -- |
2. Save your Word file as Filtered HTML and then cut and paste that document
3. Save your document to Plain Text, cut and paste that, and use the formatting features on the Outdoor Ed rich text editor.
For help on using the online Editor click the Help button on the Editor or for detailed help see the End User Manual - PDF file. (Note: For security reasons not all features are enabled)