Help:How to Convert a Microsoft Office Document into Wiki Format

To create a wiki page from a Microsoft Office document, do the following:


 * 1) Download and install Open Office. This takes about five minutes and is free.
 * 2) Open your document in the appropriate Open Office tool (for example: Writer for Word documents or HTML files, Calc for Excel spreadsheets).
 * 3) On the menu, click File, and then click Export.
 * 4) The Save window will appear. In the Files of Type dropdown, choose MediaWiki.
 * 5) Choose a folder in which you want to save the file.
 * 6) Click Save. A text docment (.txt) will be created. Open that document in NotePad or another text editor.
 * 7) In FamilySearch Wiki, choose to create a document.
 * 8) On the editor toolbar, click the Wikitext button (you do not need ot do this if you have the rich text editor disabled in your preferences).
 * 9) Copy the contents of the text document, and then paste them into the wiki authoring window. (See the "Special Instructions" section below for additional help regarding tables.)
 * 10) At the bottom of the screen, click Save Page.

Special Instructions

To format a table after pasting the text:


 * 1) Search the document for this line: {| class="prettytable" The line will appear once for each table that is in the document.
 * 2) Change the line to read as follows: {| width="75%" border="1" Note: You can change the percentage value for "width" to make your table wider or narrower.