Microsoft Word's .doc files are not directly supported by storiesonline's submission wizard. So you must convert them into an acceptable format. MS Word is capable of saving files in multiple formats some of which are acceptable on storiesonline.
Two file formats are supported on storiesonline: HTML files (or Web Pages in MS Word lingo), and plain text files. MS word is capable of saving in both of these formats. If your text contains italics and bolding that you would like to have it show up that way on storiesonline, then you need the HTML (web page) format.
Saving as HTML from MS Word is a simple five-step procedure:
Open your story file in MS Word.
Click on the File menu:
Select 'Save As...':
In the 'Save As...' dialog box, from the 'Save as type' menu select 'Web Page, Filtered':
If the 'Web Page, filtered' option is not available for some reason, you can use the 'Web Page' option, but that produces extremely large files that take much longer to attach AND those files may contain private bits of information that you may not want to send out.
Add something to the file name to be able to distinguish it from the original, something like '_html':
When asked to confirm, click 'Yes':
After the above steps, you'll have an HTML file that you can attach to your submission in the site's submission wizard.
The site's submission wizard converts html files into text files upon receipt. This conversion process requires that HTML files conform to a minimum set of standards in order to get proper results. For auto-generated html files like the ones resulting from the above process where MS Word generates the html code, nothing needs to be done.
However, for authors crafting their own html code and submitting it, they need to make sure of few things:
The file must be a fairly valid html file:
To submit stories or chapters with images, you need to submit the story's text and the images to go with it. You can do this two different ways:
To make this work, your text must contain pointers to where the images go in the text.
If you're submitting an html files with <img > tags in it, then you're done.
If you're submitting plain text, then you need to include something to give the moderators a hint where the images should be. For example:
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Whenever you submit text with images, leave a note in the moderators' notes field in the wizard, pointing out that you're including images and how your image locations are pointed out, so that the moderator knows what to look for in your text to include your images.
Please note that, due to bandwidth limitations, images are treated at the discretion of the moderator. If the images don't add anything to the story and are just gratuitus, then they may get removed. If they are too large then they will be scaled/re-compressed down to a more reasonable/acceptable size.
Restrictions: for images to be included in stories they must meet certain standards:
To get the best results while submitting stories/chapters to the site, there are few things that you can do:
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Why do we need to turn off MS Word's autoformat options?
MS Word has some convenient features, like auto formatting a three dashes sequence or three asterisks into a horizontal rule. When this is turned ON, it can be useful when creating documents for print. However, these features cause MS Word to create the most moronic html code and it interferes with the site's html conversion tools.
In order to avoid disappearing horizontal rules or misplaced horizontal rules, it is advisable to turn off MS Word's autoformatting tools.
There is one option that needs turning off, and that's the borders auto formatting. To turn it off there are two steps:
From the Tools menu, select 'AutoCorrect Options...'
In the AutoCorrect panel, click the 'AutoFormat As You Type' tab and check OFF the 'Border lines' box, then click OK: