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Formatting Changes after Uploading a Word Document with Images
I have been using Teams to hold virtual office hours with my students in my Business and in my Technical Writing Class. This has been working when the documents are simple and straight text. However,...
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.
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.
SquishySamson you are right... we have resorted to saving the edited doc as a pdf before uploading to Teams...
- And THIS still doesn't even work all the time. Just got done with my 2nd semester in grad school that was absolutely the WORST semester I have EVER had in undergrad or grad school to point my professor I think thought I was purposely ignoring her feedback asking me to start getting help at school writing center or I would fail grad school. I had NO CLUE what she was talking about until the last week of class other than my papers written and edited in Word , were coming out as complete mess looking fragmented and spliced together at different points of autosave as I worked on assignment. No matter I would ALWAYS use review to check writing mistakes. I felt like a complete idiot when one assignment she was really frustrated with saying in feedback my writing looked as if I used the APA paper template with embedded info directions on each page Microsoft puts on there- and I just randomly copy and pasted my written assignment over embedded content pre-filled not erasing any of the embedded content. No APA formatting with margins and on and on and on. Before I sent assignment after saving- the paper was formatted , edited and professional. Why does Word not tell users any of this stuff in troubleshooting section of app program??? Btw- when submitting no matter a pdf or Worddoc- and submit it through the Brightspace online Dropbox that is mandated for assignments to be submitted through- brightspace screws it up more the professor said. Almost was dismissed from grad school over these ridiculous issues no one at Microsoft bothers to mention or have fixed over the years! I'm beyond angry all the stress of trying to figure out what was going on and my teacher thinking I was purposely sloppy or just a complete idiot.
