Template for a WhatsApp E-Library Locker document in WORD

Welcome to the WELL Document Template

All the documents that have been posted to a WhatsApp group since you joined are stored on your own phone. You can access the documents by clicking on the icon for the Group, then scroll and select Media, links and docs. Then choose Docs from the next option to see the files. I created this template layout during the Ouistreham project so that group members could view documents with layout that fits their phone screens without sideways scrolling. I settled on making PDFs to keep all the fonts correct. 

Your Document Library in WhatsApp

On your phone, go to WhatsApp and open one of your groups. Then click on the icon for the group. Click on Media, links and docs. Then Select Docs. 

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Document Design for the WELL

I’ve been experimenting with the layout for a WORD doc that will share well and display well on ‘phones from the WhatsApp library of Docs. This file is my design so far; it has small pages for the screen and narrow margins to save space. I set these in Layout - Page Setup within Microsoft WORD.

I am using my WELL docs to try out parts of my travel story before I publish a more complete version to the magazine blog, here on TRAVEL WRITERS ONLINE.  

If you Save As the WELL document in WORD to create a PDF, then it will display well in WhatsApp. You can also create a public folder on Google Drive to store an archive of all your WELL documents, then post the link of the whole folder to your WhatsApp Group. This will provide all your group members with an up-to-date library of all the docs you have made.  

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Layout details for MS-WORD

WhatsApp E-Library Locker document

Charles Mansfield 9-Jan-2025

6.4 cm width x 11 cm height to give discrete screen-size pages 

0.2 cm left & right margins,

0.0 cm for top & bottom margins, 

no header nor footer in MS-WORD

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1 Arrival

Ouistreham was now in plain view. I watched from the ferry as our vessel began its turn to meet the dock. The estuary of the Orne was traced out in sands and water. Slowly the lighthouse came into view and then moved across my field of vision. Someone was fishing alone, right out where the river met the sea, it made me think of the people Maigret tries to understand in the novel set in Ouistreham. 

When you join late

When you join a WhatsApp Community Group later, then the files and documents are not available to you. I solve this by creating an accessible folder on Google Drive. In fact, you can give the public-facing folder some structure with sub-folders, and with different edit-access. This becomes the E-Library Locker - a permanent archive that late joiners can access too. 

Look inside the WELL

The WhatsApp E-Library Locker is stored in a folder on Google Drive set for public viewing. Please take a look at the structure of the WELL for the Exeter Word Hoard ecosystem, below:

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The Process in my MS OneNote Template

Please cite this article as:

Mansfield, C. (2025). Template for a WhatsApp E-Library Locker document in WORD. Travel Writers Online. https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/template-for-whatsapp-e-library-locker.html 

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Celebrating 30000 views of

TRAVEL WRITERS ONLINE

with this post on 

Friday 7 March 2025

On board Brittany Ferries, M/V Mont St Michel leaving Portsmouth en route to Ouistreham. 

Nice and misty to capture the sense of the Maigret novel, The Misty Harbour.

08:33am Thursday 14 November 2024.

If you have joined this blog post from our slides on tourism knowledge ecosystems, welcome, here are the book references for the talk:

Bakhtin, M. (2010). The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. United States: University of Texas Press.

Mansfield, C. & Potočnik Topler, J. (2023). Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding: Urban Place Writing Methodologies. Abingdon: Routledge.  DOI: 10.4324/9781003178781

http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003178781