I've been using Grandview for many years for writing lectures, reading-lists, course outlines, planning articles, etc. It's one of the main reasons - along with Lotus Magellan, Lotus Agenda, WordPerfect 6, etc. - that I still do my serious work in DOS, under DESQview of course.

I recently bought a copy of Maxthink, mainly to see whether it would deal with a fix that I sometimes get into with Grandview - finding that what started as a short, succinct outline has turned into a rambling, shaggy-haired monster with an undisciplined maxture of notes and comments. Maxthink - the old DOS version - has a procedure called bin sort that I thought might provide a useful way of getting some order into these outlines.

The problem I am having is finding a practicable way of exporting GV files in a form for importing into Maxthink that preserves the outlining structure without too much later editing. Grandview offers a way of importing from it. Maxthink but not a way of exporting to it - (I wonder why <g>).

Has anyone found a good solution for this problem?

Derek

I have not tried MaxThink yet, but do know how to move GV files to Inspiration. Perhaps the same way would work for MT. Here's what works (reasonably well) for Inspiration.

To import a GV file into Inspiration 6:

In GV,

Change the outline labeling to "Indentation w/no Labels."
Export the file using the "Paragraph" export option.
Add the " .txt" extension to the exported file name.

In Inspiration,

Open the exported file.
The Inspiration outline should have virtually the same structure as the GV outline, with perhaps only a little touch-up necessary.