Importing a Word document into BookStack

Here's how you convert a word document into a format that you can import into BookStack. 

 One-time operation: 

 

 There's a plugin for word that allows you to convert a Word (.docx) document into a Markdown (.md) file. 

 Install https://www.writage.com/docs-page/ 

 

 For each Word document that you want to convert: 

 

 Use your file explorer to find the file that you want to convert 

 Double click on the .docx file to open it in Word 

 Save-AS Markdown file (mine shows up at the bottom of the list).  Save it in the same directory as the original file 

 In your file explorer, you'll now see your word document with a ".md" extension 

 Right click on that and Open-Using either NotePad or WordPad or whatever editor you want 

 In NotePad/WordPad 

 

 ^A to select all 

 ^C to copy everything 

 

 In your web browser 

 

 Open https://bookstack.freshstartfurniturebank.org/shelves 

 Click on the book that you to insert the page into (for example, Volunteer Policies and Procedures in the Policies and Procedures book) 

 Pick the chapter where you want to insert the page (for example, Front Desk) 

 On the right-hand side, click on New Page 

 At the top, Change "New Page" to whatever title you want 

 At the very top, you will see 3 vertical dots. Click on those 

 Click on "Switch to Markdown Editor (clean content)" 

 The screen will spit into 2 screens. 

 Click on the line labeled "1" on the left-hand screen 

 ^V to paste what you copied from NotePad/WordPad 

 Click on the 3 vertical dots on the top 

 Switch to WYSIWYG editor 

 Make any changes that you want to the document 

 

 Select document headers. Change their style from "Paragraph" to one of the header styles. I use Medium and Small. These will form breadcrumbs that appear on the right hand of the screen for the reader. 

 

 When you're done, click on Save Page 

 If you want to re-arrange the order that pages appear in the book, click on the Sort Book link on the right-hand side 

 

 

 If your document isn't a Word document 

 

 Select and Copy the content 

 Follow the 1st 5 instructions from above 

 Paste your content into the WYSIWYG editor and make changes as needed