Forum Discussion
Formatting Changes after Uploading a Word Document with Images
mhnicholastry installing the MS OFFICE chrome extension and then sign in, after opening the extension,
the formatting issue will disappear.
Worked for me!!
This does not work. The MS OFFICE extension in chrome does NOT fix the formatting integration problems. It only allows simple cut, copy, paste functions to work properly. There are numerous formatting errors in documents created offline then opened in MS WORD online. This is a huge problem for WORD users and I'm astonished that Microsoft would allow this problem with document formatting to persist. I am inclined to begin converting my documents to Google Docs just to streamline my processes.
- it is astonishing- format changes radically! Text boxes columns all of it. Ridiculous.
MKBascom I can't believe after all of this time, these problems still exist. I think it has to do with the fact that a Word document created on the installed version is somehow not the same as the browser version--the coding or how the documents operate--I don't have the expertise in this. I wonder if to avoid these formatting changes, you must create the document from within Teams. But I personally don't like to use the browser version of Word. It's not as robust, even though it has improved over the years.
I have found that setting an assignment asking the student to create a document and then uploading it, or having them download the file, editing it, then uploading, is probably the best way to preserve formatting of documents within Teams classroom.
AndyTres That doesn't preserve anything. I'm supposed to upload documents for my course and nothing works properly, documents randomly don't show up. Then the formatting is completely different once uploaded, this makes no sense. Why would having pictures in one place in a word document suddenly change to somewhere else in a random jumble of letters and pictures, the moment it's uploaded? Makes it impossible to hand work in.
