Word to Wiki Import Guide
Chris Kenward
30/1/2026
v 1.0

This is an attempt to document what can be imported from Word to the Wiki with no (minimal) intervention.

This is NOT a style guide but should serve as a guide to what will work & also give us a document to use to test the conversion scripts

At least four heading styles will work, eg

Heading One Will Work

Heading Two Will Work

Heading Three Will Work

Heading Four Will Work

Ordinary Paragraphs

Ordinary paragraphs of text will work. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque faucibus ex sapien vitae pellentesque sem placerat. In id cursus mi pretium tellus duis convallis. Tempus leo eu aenean sed diam urna tempor. Pulvinar vivamus fringilla lacus nec metus bibendum egestas. Iaculis massa nisl malesuada lacinia integer nunc posuere. Ut hendrerit semper vel class aptent taciti sociosqu. Ad litora torquent per conubia nostra inceptos himenaeos.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque faucibus ex sapien vitae pellentesque sem placerat. In id cursus mi pretium tellus duis convallis. Tempus leo eu aenean sed diam urna tempor. Pulvinar vivamus fringilla lacus nec metus bibendum egestas. Iaculis massa nisl malesuada lacinia integer nunc posuere. Ut hendrerit semper vel class aptent taciti sociosqu. Ad litora torquent per conubia nostra inceptos himenaeos.

Numbered Paragraphs

Numbered paragraphs will work, eg

  1. Numbered paragraphs will work. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque faucibus ex sapien vitae pellentesque sem placerat. In id cursus mi pretium tellus duis convallis. Tempus leo eu aenean sed diam urna tempor. Pulvinar vivamus fringilla lacus nec metus bibendum egestas. Iaculis massa nisl malesuada lacinia integer nunc posuere. Ut hendrerit semper vel class aptent taciti sociosqu. Ad litora torquent per conubia nostra inceptos himenaeos.
  2. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque faucibus ex sapien vitae pellentesque sem placerat. In id cursus mi pretium tellus duis convallis. Tempus leo eu aenean sed diam urna tempor. Pulvinar vivamus fringilla lacus nec metus bibendum egestas. Iaculis massa nisl malesuada lacinia integer nunc posuere. Ut hendrerit semper vel class aptent taciti sociosqu. Ad litora torquent per conubia nostra inceptos himenaeos.

Styling Text

You should be able to make text bold, underline text or italicise it.

Tables

Simple tables will work

Simple Tables with
Text In Cells
Will Work  

Bullets

Bulleted lists will work and a level of indentation is supported, eg

  • We
  • Can
  • Have
  • Bullets
    • With
    • One
    • Level
  • Of
  • indent

Numbered Lists

Numbered lists will work, but only one level is currently supported

  1. Likewise
  2. Numbered
  3. lists
  4. Will
  5. Work

Footnotes

Inserting a footnote (1)will work.

Inserting Images

Images will work but will require some manual intervention by the person doing the conversion

WordToWiki v1.0 Test image001.jpg

Figure 1This is an image

Quotes

One level of quoting, styled with the Quote style will work, eg :

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque faucibus ex sapien vitae pellentesque sem placerat. In id cursus mi pretium tellus duis convallis. Tempus leo eu aenean sed diam urna tempor. Pulvinar vivamus fringilla lacus nec metus bibendum egestas. Iaculis massa nisl malesuada lacinia integer nunc posuere. Ut hendrerit semper vel class aptent taciti sociosqu. Ad litora torquent per conubia nostra inceptos himenaeos.

Notes

1 : This is a footnote


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