Selecting and Opening Documents
To select a document, single-click the document icon to the left of
the document name, or move the cursor to the item, then right, until the
down arrow appears. Click in the area between the name and the down arrow.
To open a document, single-click on the name or double-click the icon.

In the image above, the document named “Buzz's Notes on Beta” is selected.
Importing Documents
You can import any Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft Word 2003 XML, Microsoft
Word 2007 (.docx), Rich Text Format (.rtf) or plain text (.txt) document
into Buzzword.
To import:
- Click the Document menu.
- Select Open File... A dialog box opens, allowing you to choose
the file you want to import.
- Navigate to the file you want to open and click Open.
- The document opens in Buzzword.
Notes on how documents are converted.
There are a number of limitations on any conversion from one document
format to another. This list covers some of the most significant limitations
in the Preview release.
- If you are importing a Word document with revisions (Track Revisions
is on), you must accept or reject revisions before you import; Buzzword
does not preserve revision markings.
- Comments are not imported.
- Since lists in Word include auto-numbered headings that may include
many ordinary paragraphs, Buzzword does not import lists that include
unnumbered or unbulleted items as true Buzzword lists, but retains the
numbering and indenting.
- Section breaks are treated as page breaks. If headers and footers
are based on sections, this link is lost; the first header and footer
that appear are used throughout the document.
- Font size, color, and styles such as bold, italic, underlines,
and strikethroughs are retained; all other variations, such as superscript,
subscript, and small caps, are not supported in the Preview release.
- Justified text (aligned on both left and right) is imported as
left-aligned text.
- Not every bullet symbol is supported in Buzzword; Buzzword uses
its default symbol at each level.
- Footnotes are converted into endnotes.
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Fonts are generally mapped to one of the standard fonts Buzzword uses:
- Sans serif fonts such as Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, Geneva,
MS Sans Serif to Myriad Pro
- Serif fonts such as Times New Roman, Times, Palatino, Book
Antiqua, MS Serif to Minion Pro
- Monospace fonts such as Courier, Courier New, Lucida Console,
Monaco to Courier Std
- Vertical fonts such as Impact, Charcoal, Lucida Sans Unicode
to News Gothic Std
- Cursive fonts such as Comic Sans MS to Tekton Pro
- Old-style fonts such as Georgia to Adobe Garamond Pro
- Novelty fonts such as Trebuchet to Cronos Pro
- For imported images, the following wrapping and alignment are supported
in the Preview release: inline with no wrapping; relative horizontal alignment
to a character; alignment left, right, or center. All other types of alignment
are converted to floating left with an offset that corresponds to the
position in the original document.
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Tables follow these rules:
- All cells will have the same borders.
- Cells that span columns or tables are divided into a single-column
or single-row cell and the number of blank cells that will fill the column
or row to match the maximum number of cells in that row or column.
- Nested tables are preserved, but with a blank line preceding
and following.
- Fields other than the five that Buzzword supports (document name,
owner, most recent date saved, page number and total pages in headers
and footers) are converted to text strings.
- Headers and footers aligned left for even-numbered pages are converted
to right-aligned format.