Word Templates

What does the template do?

The YAWC (Yet Another Word Converter!) Word template enhances your Word editing environment to help you apply named Word styles such as headings and lists to your documents. This is important if you want to get clean HTML from your Word content. When you create a document using this template, you will see a number of small additions to your Word environment.

• The standard Word formatting toolbar is replaced with the YAWC toolbar, which looks like this:

  

  The toolbar contains icons to quickly apply styles such as Title, Heading 1, Heading 2, List Bullet, etc.

• The template also has a range of keyboard shortcuts defined, for example <Ctrl>+1 for Heading 1, <Ctrl>+2 for Heading 2, etc.
• Finally, a new YAWC menu is added, to access a more complete range of styles, grouped into categories like Headings, Lists, and Tables.

Together, these features make editing and structuring Word files fast and efficient, and result in clean, structured content that converts into clean, structured HTML, almost regardless of the conversion tool you use.

Converting to HTML

The template also allows you convert your Word file into HTML, using the YAWC>Convert & Preview… command. This command uploads your file to the YAWC Online server, converts it, and displays a web page preview, all from within Word itself.

• This is provided as a free service, but limited to Word files of 50KB or less in size. Some Google ads may also appear in the output.
• You can upgrade to a free trial of our online Word to HTML conversion service to remove these restrictions.
• If you have lots of Word files to publish, we can format and convert them for you.

Other templates

We have a number of Word templates available, suitable for different purposes. Each is digitally signed so that you can use it while keeping your macro security setting to High (cf. Tools>Macro>Security…). The templates are signed by XML Workshop Ltd., and when you first open them, you will be prompted to add our name to your list of trusted sources, in order to enable the macros in the templates.

• yawcUtilities.dot

  This template contains a selection of convenient macros to assist in processing multiple files. It includes a facility to search and replace across all open files.

• yawcElearning.dot

  This template is customised to support the creation of elearning content, and includes facilities to create HTML forms and multi-media interactions.