Microsoft Word File Import/Export (Book)

I just tested on a clean install using the default Moodle 3.2 XAMPP-based distribution with the "Base" theme, and the "Book administration" menu includes the 3 extra menu items. Note that you have to create the new book, then click "Save and Display", then click on the cogwheel icon to see the Book administration menu. Are you looking for the items in the wrong place? I certainly find the new "Base" theme very confusing.

I just tried the lateset version in a new install of Moodle 3.2 as well as an upgraded site and although the Word Import works great in drag and drop mode in Atto, the 3 added menu items in the Book administration menu are missing.
I tried an exsiting Book as well as a new Book and no luck.
Am I missing something?
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Hi Dinis,
The exported Word file needs some post-processing if the book contains images. You need to download a Word template from http://www.moodle2word.net/ that contains a macro that processes the Word file, converting the images into embedded images in Word.
Unfortunately, this macro has recently begun to be considered by Microsoft Windows Defender to be a virus, so you may have difficulty downloading it. You would need to turn off Defender, download the template, run it on the Word file, and then turn Defender on again, in order to get the images.
Unless you have a lot of images, it's probably easier to re-insert the image manually.
Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

Hi. I'm using the plugin but one page of the Book is only one image (A4) and when i export to word the page is blanck. Is this ok?

Yes, it does, and I've updated the version information to reflect this.

Hello. This plugin correctly work into Moodle 3.1?

Hello.
Congratulations for this plugin, it's exactly what I need !
I'm using Office 2013, french version.
I encouter some little problems maybe you can solve. In a first document :
- When a paragraph content a Word link (Référence/Renvoi), in moodle, the paragraph appear as an html link form the Word link to the end of the paragraph
- If a paragraps content a bloc of text (Insert/Forms/Text bloc), it means the header is not correctly interpreted (appear for example as index09_06_sub.htm)
- The "puces" (I dont't know the english term...) are not converted (ul/ol in HTML).
In an another Word doc, none of the headers are interpreted, but styles are Heading1, heading2
You can contact me (pascal.gagnebin@ceff.ch) if you want I send you the Word files.
Best regards,
Pascal

Dear Eoin, thank you for forking Lucimoo ebook import and export and creating this new plugin - excellent!
Please give correct attribution / credit for Lucimoo to Mikael Ylikoski - http://lucidor.org/lucimoo/ on your page https://github.com/ecampbell/moodle-booktool_wordimport

I have added a bit to the description to make this a bit clearer. The Book Administration menu has a new item added "Import chapters from Microsoft Word file"

Thank you for the Word import plugin.
I think we would be using it a lot.
I installed the Microsoft Word file import plugin, but the system looks exactly the same as before installation.
I don't see an icon or a button in Moodle to import Word documents.
Where can I find info about this?
Do we need to restart the server or something?
I am a newbie in Moodle world, so please tell me step by step, what should I need to make it work.
Thanks,
Marco

Hello again,
You are right; the image was placed right before the first "Heading 1". I corrected this and now the images are transferred together with the page. As far as this issue is concerned, I can confirm that this is not a bug.
Thank you very much for your efforts.
Best regards.

Hi Hakan,
Thanks for trying it out.
The most likely reason for this problem is that the image is placed before the first "Heading 1"
style in the document.
The converter only includes content after Heading 1 styles.
Since the heading title is not included as the page name, it is also likely
that there is no Heading 1 style in the document at all, which would also
prevent any content from being imported.

Using MS Office 2007 and Moodle 2.9.3, I converted an office file without images into a book with this plugin and it worked smoothly. Yet, when I added an image to the same office document and transferred it into another blank book, the image on the first page was not transferred and the heading title is now "index01_00.htm" where it should have been "Testing 1". Still, I believe the plugin is really useful (the images can be added afterwards).

Hi AL, many thanks for trying it out. I think the problem is that the .docx file saved by Libre Office does not contain heading styles with the same name as Word itself uses (e.g. Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.), so the import process doesn't recognise any chapters at all, and imports nothing. I have now changed the behaviour so that the whole file is treated as a single chapter if no top-level headings (with the right name, i.e. "Heading 1") are present. I just released version 0.9.2 with this fix.

Upon playing with my Libre Office docx file some more, not getting a Continue button at all seems to have been because the document I was using had a title formatted as a title. Once I changed it to Heading 1, I started getting the document content into the book, even though I still did not see a continue button. The text was ALL in Italics, also.
I saved the text as txt, then opened it in MS Word. I then formatted H1 and H2 as needed and saved as docx. I was then able to successfully import the file. With debugging on I still get some debug information about pass 1 and pass 2, but I also now get the Importing and Relinking message followed by a continue button. The book looks as it should.
I have not tried this with any pictures yet.