Compiled by my friend Dr. Janice Chadwick, Fullerton City College.
If you are using Word 6.0, Word 97, Office 97 or Office 98 to write your CPR:
One of scripting languages the World Wide Web uses, HTML, does not automatically recognize superscripts and subscripts. Many mathematical and chemical equations will not be presented on the Web in the fashion you expect if you do not resolve this problem. The easiest way around this is to prepare, write, and edit your text using a word processor such as Word 97. If you type in Word, save as an HTML file and then copy and paste into CPR, all of your superscripts and subscripts will be saved. For example, the following chemical equation without first converting to HTML looks like:
3H2(g) + N2(g) = 2NH3(g)
but if you convert to HTML it will look like:
3H2(g) + N2(g) = 2NH3(g)
If you know something about HTML, you will recognize that the subscript tag is to write ammonia is NH<SUB>3</SUB> and to write Avogadro's number is 6.022 x 10<SUP>-23</SUP>.
The basic steps in using Word as your HTML editor are the following and copying into CPR is the following:
1. Write your text in Word using the subscripts and superscripts.
2. Click on the File pull-down menu.
3. Save your file first as a Word document just in case you lose some formatting along the way you want to keep
4. Click on Save as HTML (you'll get a box about losing formatting - click on OK)
5. Name your file and put it somewhere on your computer.
6. Click on the View pull-down menu
7. Click on HTML Source
8. Highlight everything between <BODY> and </BODY> using your left mouse key
9. Click on the Edit pull-down menu
10. Click on Copy
11. Minimize Word by going up to the right-hand corner and clicking on the underscore button _
12. Get on the Internet, log in to CPR and access the CPR text page
13. Place your mouse cursor in the box provided to enter text.
14. Depress the right-hand key of your mouse button.
15. Click on Paste
16. In CPR, click on SAVE
17. Click on PROCESS
When writing text for a chemistry course, you will probably use superscript and subscript a lot. If you want the subscript button and superscript button to appear on your toolbar in Word 97:
1. Click on the Tools pull-down ment
2. Click on Customize
3. Click on Commands
4. Click on Format in the left-hand box
5. In the right-hand box, scroll down to the superscript icon
6. Click on the superscript icon
7. Drag the superscript with your left mouse key up to the toolbar above where you write you text.
8. Click on the subscript icon
9. Drag the subscript with your left mouse key up to the toolbar above where you write you text.