Podcast 106: The mysterious Reuse Files button in Microsoft Word

The episode’s title might sound like an April Fool’s joke, but it isn’t. In December 2020, a “Reuse Files” button mysteriously appeared in the UK browser version of Microsoft Word. There doesn’t appear to be any documentation about it on the Microsoft website. What does it do? In this episode, we do some investigating to… Read more »

Staff handbook written in Word and converted to a responsive Web layout

In recent posts, we’ve been describing different ways to publish policy and procedure documents online. Here’s an example of a staff handbook that has been converted from Word to a responsive web layout. The home page provides links to the main sections in the handbook. In this example, we also changed many of the sentences… Read more »

Converting policy documents written in Word to HTML – Example

In recent posts, we’ve been describing the different ways to publish policy and procedure documents online. Often, organisations want to write their content in Microsoft Word, as staff are familiar with the application. However, they also want a very nice, and usable, online version. Here’s an example of a direct conversion from Word to HTML. Before… Read more »