Re: how do you import grandview outlines into microsoft word

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Posted by 100341.2151
2005-03-11 19:15:20

Stephen -

> Aren’t there projects where you would sacrifice power for an expeditious transfer to Word? Particularly if as you mentioned, you have to deformat to make the transition with Grandview.

I can see times when I might go straight from Brainstorm to Word - and, indeed, I may well do so more often as I get used to working with Brainstorm. I am still not yet sure, however, whether Brainstorm has the sort of formal, detailed outlining facilities that GrandView provides, and that I need for complex projects. (I am leaving Word’s outliner out of account here, as I only use it for tidying up the underlying structure of an article, not for outlining. It’s just too awkward, I find.)

I suppose I am arguing for talking in terms of first- and second-stage outlining - i.e. brainstorming vs detailed, logical development of an argument. For the latter I like to work within an editable, indented outline view that displays all the levels at once. So at the moment I envisage using Brainstorm for the first job, and GrandView for the second stage. (For the third stage I use Word.) I’m willing to put up with the inconvenience of having to export GV to an intermediary program in order to be able to import my outline - which by this time has almost become a draft - into Word’s outliner.

I agree about the advantages of multiple undo. It’s especially useful (a) where programs are prone to doing unexpected and exasperating things (e.g., Word), or (b) where what has been done may be hidden from the user - as may often be the case when manipulating outlines.

Derek

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