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Question: Can I use Microsoft Word to author wiki pages?

Answer:

You can't directly author wiki pages in Microsoft Word, but you can use Word to supply the content of a wiki page. Here's how.

There are two ways to do this:

1. Use the More Actions menu and selecting "Import Word Document". This replaces the content of the page with the contents of the Word doc.
2. Attach the Word doc to the page, author your page, and then where you want the content inserted from the Word doc, use the <show> tag. (This way you can use multiple word docs within one page). (Thanks Kathleen at Knowesys for pointing this out!)

Example: Here's how to display the contents of one or more Word attachments within a wiki page using <show>. In this example, we're displaying the contents of the attached ShowTagTestKB.doc file.

Note: I set form="/System/Forms/DefaultForm" here because I don't want the showed page to use this knowledge base's form, but instead the standard DefaultForm. If I was in a page without a form applied, I could omit the form attribute.

Word Doc:

The attached ShowTagTestKB.doc looks like this (this is a shrunken screenshot):

Code:

In script markup mode (More Actions -> Edit Page in Markup), edit your page and enter the following <show> tag:

<wiki:show path="ShowTagTestKB.doc" form="/System/Forms/DefaultForm" />

Results:

This Content Here From the Word Attachment Below!

Note that all I did was include this document using the <wiki:show/> tag.

• Better than “Importing” the word document because I can still add content above and below this page

• Makes it easy to update the page by simply attaching new revisions of this word doc

• Since there’s no “export page as Word” feature yet, makes it easy to use Word as a page’s source, but still “get the content back out” as Word.

Handles Tables:

Even handles images! (not quiet yet – we’ll fix that bug)