Cannot Paste Long Comment

Question. My instructor recommended that I first write my discussion board comments in Word and then copy and paste that into the discussion board. By doing this, I can use all of Word's tools (like spell check) to improve my posts. However, if I type something that's long I can't paste it into the discussion board editor. How can I fix this?

Answer. The editor used in the discussion board is not intended to be used for really long notes. It will not handle any response that's more than about 4000 characters. If you want to just dash off a paragraph or two then the text editor is fine. However, for long responses (something that's a couple of pages or more) you will need to create a Word document and then upload that document into the discussion board. Uploading a long file also makes it easier for other folks in your class since they can then download your comments and read them at their leisure instead of plowing through several screens of text while online.

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