Word outline export?

[Roland Küffner]

Hi Rachel,

Word is not the best tool for such a task. I recommend you export  
your outline as plain text with tabs and use a decent (plain) text  
editor on the windows machine that keeps those tabs.

You might try jEdit (jedit.org) for this. It's a free and powerful  
text editor that has nice folding features that resemble the Omni  
feeling to some extend - it even allows hoisting! But any text editor  
will do. Back on your mac you simply paste the file back into the  
outliner (but make sure you are not in text insert mode): Every tab  
at the begining of a line will intend that line in omni. Every tab  
after some text in a line will be pasted to the next column in omni.

I use this method every day - same problem, no mac at work :-( - and  
don't find it too cumbersome ...

Hope, this helps
Roland


Am 21.03.2007 um 19:50 schrieb Rachel Cobleigh:

> 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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