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To save as HTML or not?

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To save as HTML or not?

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- [Instructor] We all have documents we've already written in our word processor of choice and they all offer us that tempting option to save as html. But should you? I have a typical syllabus open in Google Docs. When I wrote this document, I used all the default styling, so the question is, how do we get this content seamlessly into our website with the least amount of work? The first option is to simply share the document in it's native format. For a Google Doc, this would open the document up in a browser like you're seeing. But, for other word processors it would require students to download the file and open it in another program. All of those options work but they're not the most elegant solution. The next option would be to save the file as a PDF by going to the file menu, selecting Download as, and choosing PDF document. This creates a snap shot of the document that you can then link to your site. PDFs are a fairly universal format and they will display in most browsers…

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