Promethean Training Session Post 2 - MS Word and WB

To use word documents in WB:

• From main menu > Studio Settings


• Click on 'Linked File Hosting'


• Tick the boxes for Word, Powerpoint and Excel and click OK

NB - these settings will need to be redone for each PC that you log on to

Now you can drag files from these 3 programs into a flipchart, open them in a separate window and copy chunks of text from a document onto the flipchart.

How?

• open a flipchart and click on the resources icon on the toolstrip


• click on the folder icon ('Other Resource Folder')


• and then the icon with 3 dots ('Browse to another folder')


• use the folder/file tree to find the document or file that you want to work with


• when you click OK, it transfers the file(s) to the Other Resources column


• drag and drop the file onto the flipchart, where it will show as a Word icon


• double click the icon to open the file in a small window over the flipchart

[Alternative way: open Windows Explorer (Start+E) and simply drag the file from My Documents onto the flipchart. Choose 'Add links to files as>>Image Icon Objects'.]

From there, you can arrange/resize the window to show the text on the upper half of the WB and leave the lower half free to write on.

Also, it is very easy to highlight/select part of the text (or an image) from the file or document and drag it onto the flipchart to annotate/edit.

David