Reviewing Your Document

When you first open a document in Word—before you start working with eXtyles—check the following items by giving the document a quick visual review for anything that might cause problems during eXtyles processing.

• Graphics

• Reference head

• Tables

Graphics

Graphics embedded in Word files may be left in place during eXtyles processing. However, for best performance Inera generally recommends removing these graphics during eXtyles processing. Embedded images increase the file size of your document and can cause eXtyles to perform much more slowly. If you prefer to leave graphics in the Word document, it is recommended that you insert linked images.

Some workflows may require linked images to be converted to embedded images after eXtyles processing. The following steps describe how to easily convert linked images to embedded images.

1. Click the File tab and to the right and down you will see the Related Documents section. (In Word 2010 and 2013 click the File tab and select "Info" to see the Related Documents section.)

2. Click Edit Links to Files, located under the Related Documents heading. Note that this option only appears if there is a linked file in your document.

3. Select the linked files that you want to embed in your document.

4. Check the box for Save picture in document.

5. Click the Break Link button. A dialog opens; click Yes to confirm this action. The links are removed and the graphics are now embedded in your document.

Reference Head

For documents that have Harvard-style (i.e., name–date) citations and therefore unnumbered references, the reference list should be preceded by a standard head such as “References,” “Bibliography,” and so on. eXtyles Auto-Styling, which runs during Cleanup, automatically applies the appropriate paragraph style to references, eliminating the need to manually style this section of the document. Although eXtyles can usually identify a numbered reference list without a reference head, unnumbered lists require a head for eXtyles to accurately identify the content.

Tables

Authors occasionally use a variety of creative methods to construct tables in Microsoft Word. eXtyles is optimized for tables that have been built using the Word table editor.

If tables are not converted to the Word table editor prior to eXtyles activation, you may lose the layout of the table, or some eXtyles functions may not work correctly.

Before activating a document with eXtyles, you should convert all tables built in other ways (e.g., tab-delimited, Excel table, etc.) into Microsoft Word tables. For more information about identifying and converting tables, please see the eXtyles guide, “A Table is a Table is a Table,” available at http://www.inera.com/support/additional_guides .