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~NotWithoutHonor Jul 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

So, DA won't accept Microsoft Word documents for literature anymore? Or am I just doing something wrong? And if I'm not doing something wrong, and DA really won't accept Word documents, then does anyone have a suggestion for an easy way to bring work across to an acceptable file type?

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~Balaria Jul 3, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

PDF files are the way to go if you want to just upload a file in my opinion. They look nice and clean with the proper formatting and get around some limits dA imposes otherwise(character count etc.)

*sydnerella Jul 2, 2012 Writer

What I usually do is just copy and paste what I wrote into the add text function when I go to submit.

~NotWithoutHonor Jul 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks. It seems like that's what I'll have to do as well.

*sydnerella Jul 2, 2012 Writer

Hope it helps

=star-blazer Jul 2, 2012 Professional Writer

You could just copy and paste from your Word document and go through and edit the spacing, etc. If not, you can turn your Word document into a PDF file and upload it that way.

~NotWithoutHonor Jul 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks.
I tried copying and pasting but the editing that required was very inconvenient.
How do I convert it?

=star-blazer Jul 3, 2012 Professional Writer

I believe if you just go to save your Word document as a normal file, you can choose "save as" options and there should be PDF as one of them. Try that and see if it uploads.

`saintartaud Jul 2, 2012 Professional General Artist

While in Word, go to File> Print and while in the Print dialog box, click on the bottom-left menu that says PDF, then Save as PDF. Pretty much that simple.

~Lytrigian Jul 2, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

If you use Stash, it should pick up all your formatting correctly with a simple copy-paste.

The disadvantage to Stash is that it stores your work in Google Documents, which you may or may not really want, and some users have trouble viewing them. If you submit it in the old way you do need to reformat it. I like to put extra space between paragraphs -- it looks like too much in the document, but OK in the submission -- and add HTML tags around italics and other special formatting, which you can do with the Word's search and replace. (You can search for formatting.) I don't save it once I've made these adjustments, because they're just for the purposes of copypasting a submission.

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