Dr Andus 6/5/2014 9:18 pm
Garland Coulson wrote:
I have been using Noteliner and really like it but I can't get the
outline from Noteliner in PowerPoint. Even copy and paste doesn't work -
Noteliner freezes.

It works fine over here. As Sam says on the Noteliner website, problems usually have to do with missing or damaged .net 2.0 framework or Visual Studio 2005 installations. There are links to those on his website:
http://www.noteliner.org/i/Main.html

Any other suggestions?

Have you tried Workflowy? It gives you the option to export a branch as formatted (to paste into MS Office, for instance), plain text, or OPML. But I'm not sure what you mean by exporting "the top level topics." In Workflowy it's only possible to export an entire branch.

There is also my beloved Bonsai 5 Desktop Edition, but I'm not sure if it's still possible to buy a license:
http://64.226.29.51/Bonsai/Download.cfm

BrainStorm could be another option (unconventional and also a dinosaur... I like dinosaurs.)
http://www.brainstormsw.com/