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We have several customers who have asked if there is a good way of moving content from MS Word documents to wiki pages.  The key is stripping out all the mark-up that Microsoft Word adds to documents; the mark-up only makes sense to Microsoft products and messes it up for all other products.

My advice is to copy everything from a Word document and put it into Microsoft Notepad or some other text editor.  This takes all the mark-up out of the document and only moves the content over.  Then, copy and paste from Notepad into the wiki page.  The final step is to format the document in the wiki page.  Using our editor, you can assign the headers (which drive the table of contents), add bullets, format text, etc.. You can always try and copy and paste directly from Word first, and it might work.  If it doesn’t, this is the best process. 

Hello,

You may not have realized, but GroupSwim can serve as an excellent document repository for your group.  There are three ways to add documents:

1. Attach them to a discussion