How to Create a Tile from Word, Excel, PowerPointVisio or Acrobat
Amongst the toolbars in Word, Excel, PowerPointVisio and Acrobat, there is a DNE toolbar. The example here is the Word toolbar.
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The first tool (shows the Wordtile icon only) allows you to save a complete document as a tile.
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The second tool (shows Word tile icon plus the image tile icon) allows you to save a snapshot of the screen as it presently appears, as a tile.
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The third (shows Word tile icon plus the subdocument icon) allows you to bookmark a passage in the document and save the document and bookmark, such that the tile will open the document to the bookmarked passage.
To save a complete document as a tile:
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Click the first tool on the DNE toolbar, (e.g., ),
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The DNE will ask you to: "Press Yes to copy the file(s) as DNE Tile(s) Press No to link the file(s) to DNE Tile(s)".
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Select Yes to copy the document as a tile. Any subsequent changes in the file (outside the DNE) will not be reflected in the tile (inside the DNE) and vice versa.
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Select Noto link the document. The document will remain outside the DNE but will be linked via its tile.
To save a screen snapshot as an image tile:
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Click the second tool on the DNE toolbar (e.g., ).
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The DNE will ask you to: "Press Yes to copy the file(s) as DNE Tile(s) Press No to link the file(s) to DNE Tile(s)".
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Select Yes to copy the document as a tile. Any subsequent changes in the file (outside the DNE) will not be reflected in the tile (inside the DNE) and vice versa.
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Select Noto link the document. The document will remain outside the DNE but will be linked via its tile.
To save a bookmark as a subdocument tile:
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Drag your mouse to highlight the passage in the text that you want to save as a subdocument.
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Click the third tool on the DNE toolbar (e.g., ),
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If the file already exists in the DNE, then the subdocument will be saved. In this case you can skip step 4 and 5.
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If the file exists outside the DNE, then the DNE must either copy the file or link to the file.
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The DNE will ask you to: "Press Yes to copy the file(s) as DNE Tile(s) Press No to link the file(s) to DNE Tile(s)".
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Select Yes to copy the document as a tile. Any subsequent changes in the file (outside the DNE) will not be reflected in the tile (inside the DNE) and vice versa.
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Select Noto link the document. The document will remain outside the DNE but will be linked via its tile.
If the DNE is open and there is an NE active in the displayed room, then the tile will be affiliated with the active NE. If the DNE is closed when you create the tile, then the tile will be placed in the "files to be dragged in" folder. The next time you open the DNE you will be reminded that there is a tile to be dragged in.
