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Written by Marco Conti Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:29

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MS Word and Joomla

There are no big differences between Joomla and a regular HTML editor, but given that most people will use Joomla to publish articles, press releases and other traditionally formatted documents, it's worth it to take a look at how to handle a regular MS Word document with either Textism or the plain text system.

A normal document will often have this formatting:

Title
Date (1,1 2009)
Byline (written by first and last name)
Body Text
Footer (with possible attributions, collaborators, etc.

It's all too easy to get lazy and paste the entire article into Joomla without giving it a second thought. Depending on your Joomla content settings you may end up with a repetition of the title, date and byline because Joomla already is set to insert them in every article if the preference is turned on. It is important to remove them from the article and add them to the proper Joomla fields as illustrated in the screenshot at right.

Conclusion

I hope you found this article useful and here is a checklist for you or your employees to print and keep handy. It always pays to take 5 more minutes when setting up your website content rather than doing things in a hurry and ruin your website in the process. If you like to use Word for your word processing, with a little bit of time and training there is no reason why you should change your habits.

Good luck.

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