Creating

- Documents

DOC, DOCX, PDF, ODT, XLS, XLSX, and ODS are all supported.

If you are adding the document to your VoiceThread in order to provide additional printable materials to your participants, make sure to tell them how to download and print them. See Playback Options for more information. If a user right-clicks on page 5 of 30 in a document, we'll allow him to download the entire original document, not just that one page. You may want to mention to your participants that this is an option.

If you're putting a document into your VoiceThread because you want to have a discussion about the text within it, then we suggest changing the format to "landscape" mode (wider and shorter) and making your text much bigger. You should also consider changing the default Playback Option to Open in Full Screen. This will make the text much more accessible and readable to the average participant. Take a look at this tutorial for details about formatting documents for VoiceThread.

If you're dissatisfied with VoiceThread's conversion of your document, the most reliable format to use is PDF. The PDF format was designed for document portability and precise reproduction, so it's the best way to get exactly what you want.