In response to the difficulties some of you have been experiencing in the editing and viewing of your HTML project documents, we've developed a workaround which will allow you to work on your profile page without the hassles associated with HTML editing in word processors like MS Word 97. Follow the steps listed below to edit and save your HTML profile page in WordPad, the ubiquitous Windows 95/NT text editor. Once your file is in WordPad text-file format, you will be able to view it as HTML in any browser.

       Note that frequent checking of your work in a browser window is a reccomended tactic; by doing this you will assure that your HTML page develops without any significant errors. We'll go over how to accomplish the loading of your HTML project into a browser if it is saved on a floppy or on the hard drive of a local machine.

1) Open up your NRM Profile in whichever application you have until now been working on it (for most of you, this application will be Microsoft Word 97).

2) From the file menu, select the "Save As" option.

3) At the bottom of the "Save As" dialog box there is a pull-down menu called "Save as file of type:" - from this menu, select type "Text Only."

4) Rename your file to differentiate it from the version you're converting from. If you're converting in Microsoft Word 97, do not add a suffix to your filename. The suffix is the 3-character extension after the main filename in the form <filename>.<suffix> (e.g. suma.doc or suma.htm).

5) Save the file as type "Text Only" onto your floppy disk (A: drive) or the hard drive Temp directory (C:\temp) and exit the program.

6) Click and hold the "Start" button in the bottom lefthand corner of the Windows 95/Windows NT Desktop. Move your mouse to the "Programs" option. From the submenu that appears to the right, move your mouse up to the "Accessories" menu option. A new submenu will appear - select "WordPad" from the bottom of the "Accessories" folder.

7) WordPad will load. When the program has opened, go to the "File" menu and select the "Open" option. When the "Open" dialog box appears, go the "Open file of type" pulldown menu and select files of type "All."

8) Next, locate the directory in which you've saved the text-converted copy of your NRM Profile page. If you've saved the converted file to your floppy disk, select the A: drive. If you've saved your file to the hard drive Temp directory, navigate to this directory on the C: drive.

9) Open up your file in WordPad. You can now edit your profile page as you wish. When you save your file in WordPad, save it as file of type Text Only. If you fail to do this your file will be saved as an MS Word 6.0 document (a format which is unreadable by web browsers). Further, make sure that you append a .html suffix to your file (e.g. mormons.html - failure to do this will also result in a file which is not read correctly by a Web browser).

1) While you edit your profile page in WordPad, you should monitor your progress in Netscape. This strategy will allow you to correct any errors as they occur, rather than down the line when they may be more difficult to diagnose and fix. Save your file in WordPad (but leave the WordPad application open).

2) Open Netscape Navigator. From the "File" menu, select the "Open File" option. From the dialog box which appears, select your profile page HTML file and hit "Open."

3) The HTML page which appears on the screen is your profile page as currently saved to disk. Note that you can - and should - periodically re-save your profile in WordPad and view your progress in the Netscape browser window. When you've re-saved the page in WordPad (as type "Text" and with a .html suffix), press the "Reload" button on the browser command bar to see your progress.