I am an attorney and have been a user of Grandview for outlines for briefs, oral arguments, trial preparation materials, research and have really liked it. Although I maintain a laptop with DOS and Grandview on it, I am not able to print directly to my printer without exporting the Grandview document to wordperfect, which then fiddles with it. Symantec is no longer issuing Grandview and won't be for Windows. I may be behind the times so I was wondering if any of the other outlining programs you have listed are similar to Grandview but are windows based. To the extent that use of the mouse can be avoided with the program, that would be a real plus. (I find the new wordperfect outlining program rather annoying.) Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Ann,

It's a very long time since I used Grandview - it came as an add-on to some presentation package that I no longer use.

You might like to take a look at VisiMap (there is - I think - a U.S. web site, but the one I go to is <http://coco.co.uk&gt;&gt )

VisiMap can either be used to show you a hierarchical mindmap (spider diagram), or one key will toggle it into outline format. What I really like about it is that you can export your whole mindmap (= outline) in .rtf format, and you should be able to open that from Word Perfect.

It's now my "outliner" of choice and I fancy it would be ideal for your application. Note however that you *DO* need the full version - the Lite version doesn't have export capability (without which it fades from being a "must-have" programme to being a "useful" programme.

Regards,

Christopher Guy