Word outline export?

[Derek Motonaga]

Hi Rachel-

Unfortunately round tripping isn't easily accomplished right now. The  
Word export is formatted to be used in Word's outline view. If Word  
could export to plain text with tabs, that could be imported to OO  
and retain structure, but I'm failing to see how to accomplish that  
with Word. We do have plans to improve our importing abilities in the  
future.


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Derek M.
Support Ninja
The Omni Group



On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Rachel Cobleigh wrote:

> Thanks for your help guys. I just have a couple of questions, though.
>
> While I can open my OOutline file in Word's outline view, in Word the
> outline isn't *really* an outline: all the indentation formatting gets
> flattened out because the outline levels are just treated as headings,
> not an actual outline, in the normal view of the document. If I want
> to edit the outline in Word (because there's no Outliner implemented
> for Windows, for example) and then import the changed document back
> into OO, I can't really. Since Word has removed all of the tab
> characters, OO imports the document as a list with all the items at
> the top level.
>
> Basically, I'm forced to use Windows at work for meetings and I'm
> trying to find some way to keep using OO on my preferred machine
> (i.e., a Mac) without major headaches when transferring between the
> two platforms.
>
> Rachel
>
> On 3/10/07, Elliott Roper <elliott at yrl.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 10- Mar-2007, at 21:50, Rachel Cobleigh wrote:
>>
>> > It would be really nice to have an export from OmniOutliner to  
>> MS Word
>> > that Word will recognize in its outline view!
>>
>> Huh? Mine (Pro version) always come up in outline view in Word
>> initially.
>> File » export
>> choose file format: MS Word (HTML)
>>
>> Once in Word, it sometimes helps to copy all the text of a document
>> and paste it into a fresh document. That way you get your own style
>> format definitions for heading 1, heading 2.... (heading n and "body
>> text" for notes).
>> A bit of find and replace on styles does a quick job of turning your
>> outline into a finished Word doc.
>>
>> Quite civilised really.
>>
>> I'm on Word 2004 11.3.3 if that makes any difference.
>>
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