Practice Project Description
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The Practice Projects are a very important part of the Paratext Courses.
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Almost all of the practice during each course is done in a Practice Project.
Installing Practice Projects
- Download the necessary Practice Projects for the Course you will be going through.
- English Practice Project (EPP75) (updated 28 August, 2014)
- English Practice Project Back Translation (EPPBT75) (updated 15, July 2014)
- Open Paratext.
- Go to the File menu and choose Restore Project > From File...
- If you do not see Restore Project, do this:
- Hold the SHIFT key down
- While holding SHIFT, go to the Window menu and untick Simplified Paratext Menus.
- Click OK in the confirmation window.
- Restart Paratext.
- Go to the File menu and choose Restore Project > From File...
- Go to the folder where you saved the Practice Project file(s).
- Choose a Practice Project to install/restore (for example: EPP1).
- Click Open.
- If you see this window:
- click YES.
- Important Note: ONLY click yes for Practice Projects. Do NOT click yes for any "REAL" project.
- If you are using this Practice Project on multiple computers for a course, you should want to rename the project on each computer so it doesn't get mixed up with Send/Receive.
- Click New Project.
- Click Edit.
- Give it a good name. You could use initials to make it easy. For example:
- Full Name: English Practice Project JP
- Short Name: EPP_JP
- Click OK.
- Click OK.
- Click Select All Files.
- Untick Stylesheet.
- Untick Versification.
- Click OK.
- Repeat for any other Practice Projects you need to install.
- If you had to unticked Simplified Paratext Menus, please do this:
- Hold the SHIFT key down.
- While holding SHIFT, go to the Window menu and tick Simplified Paratext Menus.
- Click OK in the confirmation window.