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Bb 9.1 October 2014<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Online and Distance Learning Office<\/strong><\/span> has long recommended to faculty that, when they create word-processing\u00a0documents for use in their\u00a0Blackboard\u00a0<\/em>courses, they save those documents in Rich Text Format (.rtf<\/strong>). Our recommendation was based on the fact that, like Portable Document Format (.pdf<\/strong>) documents, documents saved in\u00a0.rtf\u00a0<\/strong>format can be opened in any of the commonly used PC and Mac-based word-processing applications, such as\u00a0MS Word<\/em>,\u00a0Word Perfect<\/em>,\u00a0Google Docs<\/em>,\u00a0Pages<\/em>, or\u00a0OpenOffice<\/em>.<\/p>\n However,<\/strong><\/span> our recommendation\u00a0<\/strong>has, by necessity, changed. \u00a0A number of word-processing applications (including the web-based\u00a0MS Office 365<\/em>, and\u00a0Pages<\/em>), no longer allow users to either save documents in\u00a0.rtf\u00a0<\/strong>format or open files in that format. Fortunately, all of these applications enable users to save files in either\u00a0.pdf\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>format or\u00a0MS Word\u00a0<\/em>(.docx<\/strong>) format. In view of this, we now recommend that, if you are creating a word-processing document for use in your Blackboard<\/em> course(s), you save your document in either .docx<\/strong> or .pdf<\/strong> format.<\/p>\n Whatever standard<\/strong><\/span> word-processing program you may be using, the steps for saving a document\u00a0in .pdf or .docx format are\u00a0very\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>straightforward, as you will find when you read the tutorial that the following link points to: \u00a0Saving Word-Processing Docs in Different Formats<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n Use the following link<\/strong><\/span> to download a printable version of this Bb tip of the week: Download the Tip<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n