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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:

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
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