UV Outliner Now Supports Columns

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 31, 2010 at 09:42 PM

Cassius wrote:
>Derek Cornish wrote:
>>Following on from Daly’s list, I have some other
>suggestions:
>> I seem to remember that Brainstorm can import Grandview outlines, as
>can Inspiration.
>———————————
>Derek,
>What intermediate file format
>do you use to import GV outlines into Inspiration?
>Thanks!

Cassius,

No intermediate format is needed for importing GV outlines into Inspiration, but Inspiration is required as the intermediate format for any GV to MS-Word conversion.

These are Steve Cohen’s instructions on how to change GV to Inspiration (with maybe some annotations of mine). They are still somewhere in the forum database (2005) and there are earlier ones for converting PC-Outline:
In GV:

1. Change labeling to Indentation with no labels.

2. Expand the outline (View, Expand to, 99) Caution: if the outline has two or more top-level headlines, be sure to expand each one - or, create a new top level headline and demote your previously multi-top-level headlines, then expand the new single top level headline).

3. Highlight (Mark) the entire outline. Easy way: Crtl Home to upper corner, then F6 start block, Crtl End to end of file. Then export using Paragraph option.
4. Add .txt as the file extension.

5. In Inspiration, open the .txt. file - no need to import nor convert; Inspiration automatically converts it from txt to its own .isp format.

The outline format is well preserved - 99%. A few headlines were split; or converted to a note; some empty notes were created; in only one case out of hundreds of lines was a headline promoted for no apparent reason. But most important - I don’t think I lost any data.

Derek