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Copying other text documents into web pages

As you get more accomplished in your web skills, you will probably not want to recreate “things” that you have written previously – like your resume, lesson plans for courses, etc.  You can highlight the document in your word processor, and copy it into the selected web page. 

This works well if you follow the following procedure.  Highlight your document, in your word processor, Copy it to your clipboard by your favorite method (Edit-Copy, Copy button, etc.). 

Then, go to the page, in FrontPage 2003, where you desire to insert your document. Click-on Edit in the Menu Bar and then choose Paste Special.

The following Convert Text menu screen will appear.  We suggest that you choose Normal paragraphs.  This will “hold” most of your formatting from your word processor.

Since you are “going into” HTML, you will have to do some editing to “re-center” portions of your text, and “make” some double-spaces, single-space. 

When you have made your choice, click OK.

Or you can, in the word processor of your choice, save the document as a HTML file and then Copy the saved file, from your word processor, into your web page in Microsoft Design view.  You can also open a word-processed document directly into a web page.  All of this takes a little skill and practice, so you may want to practice these techniques.