help

[generation-x]

right ive got some word documents i want to post on a forum
i want them to be open so people can read them but i cant find a way of loading it

anyone help?

simon

[dxmedia]

If the forum administrator alows you can upload attachments to posts.  Might be worth speaking to them.

[Sider]

Or you can always upload them to some service like rapidshare and post links. Or if it's likely to be popular, Bittorrent it.

[generation-x]

If the forum administrator alows you can upload attachments to posts.  Might be worth speaking to them.

i am the admin it says that that format is not supported to phb forums :-k

[LiftedDisco]

When you go to 'create a new topic' you can add attachments.

The list of attachments refers to .doc... surely this would be a standard Word doc???  Do you have a posh new version of Word - if so, I think it saves automatically as a newer extension, ie .docx and us mere mortals on steam driven stuff can't open this sort of document!

If this is the case, you will need to do 'save as' and force it to save a version with the older .doc extension and you should be able to attach this to a standard post.

If not, I see that it also accepts .pdf files so you could try converting to PDF format (cutePDF writer or similar, free on Google).

Hope this helps.

Rob

[TDi90]

When you go to 'create a new topic' you can add attachments.

The list of attachments refers to .doc... surely this would be a standard Word doc???  Do you have a posh new version of Word - if so, I think it saves automatically as a newer extension, ie .docx and us mere mortals on steam driven stuff can't open this sort of document!

If this is the case, you will need to do 'save as' and force it to save a version with the older .doc extension and you should be able to attach this to a standard post.

If not, I see that it also accepts .pdf files so you could try converting to PDF format (cutePDF writer or similar, free on Google).

Hope this helps.

Rob

Yeah listen to him Si ^^ he ha sa cool name too.

R

[dxmedia]

If the forum administrator alows you can upload attachments to posts.  Might be worth speaking to them.

i am the admin it says that that format is not supported to phb forums :-k

You need to go to the posting > attachments section of the administrative control panel

add .doc as a recognised file extension and enable it. It's a bit of a fiddle to do your first one, but once your sorted it's quite straight forward enabling other file extensions.


It's nothing to do with the file extension used when saving.

[generation-x]

many thanx  guys ill have a mess about over the weekend and see wot i can do


simon

[waveydavey]

Why not just copy and paste the text into the Forum?

[dxmedia]

Why not just copy and paste the text into the Forum?

Formatting, pics, tables....