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Posted by Cassius
Feb 26, 2007 at 07:50 PM
Dan7000 said, “Yes, I tried the “send to word” from NoteMap. It was incredibly slow - I thought my machine was hung. And the outline levels were a bit screwed up after the export. Why can’t anybody get this right??”
Dan, please see my notes in the thread “NoteMap 2.1.011.”
-c
Posted by Tom S.
Feb 27, 2007 at 01:49 AM
Cassius wrote:
>Tom S. said, “There’s a new format with Word 2007. Users of older versions (2003 and I
>think 2000) are automatically prompted to download a conversion program from MS when
>they try to open the file.”
>
>SHAME on MS. The conversion should be automatic. So much
>for “user friendly.” A good reason NOT to buy Office 2007.
Ummm. Isn’t it a little hard to build an automatic conversion into an old program when the new one hasn’t even been designed yet? In fact, I can’t think of a single program that as ever done it. The best you can usually do is get the person with the newer program to save the file in the older format and resend it.
I’m having a pretty hard time thinking of a more conveient way MS could have done it.
Tom S.
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Feb 27, 2007 at 07:46 PM
dan7000 wrote:
>Just had an incredible success w/ converting from outliner to outliner that I thought
>y’all would want to hear about.
>
>I’ve been looking for something to convert from ADM
>to. I’m trying NoteMap this week.
>
>I took one of my more important and complete ADM
>outlines, and used ADM’s Print/Export function, and then copied the entire outline
>(>1500 topics, up to 12 levels deep) to the clipboard. I then created a new outline in
>NoteMap, selected the root topic, and just hit Ctrl-V to paste and see what happened.
>
Dan, here’s something else you can try.
UltraRecall
Import as RTF
There are various options to distinguish between topics, Ex: 2,3,4 spaces, page break, any other constant charcter. This is excellent if you are disciplined in how you added info to your ADM DB
The other option is to save as an ADM rtf file, then add page breaks where ever you want so on importing to ULtraReca will create separate topics.
HTH
>It worked perfectly! The entire outline was immediately in Notemap, and all the
>levels are in the correct place. The only glitch is that Notemap only supports 9
>levels, so it converted all my levels > 9 to level 9, and provided a nice warning
>dialogue to alert me to that issue. Of course, my metatada, links, and rich text notes
>were all lost in conversion, which I personally can live without.
>
>So, I guess
>there’s one outliner->outliner conversion you can count on if you just want to
>convert the outline itself.
Posted by Cassius
Feb 27, 2007 at 08:47 PM
Perhaps I misunderstood Tom S. when he said, “There’s a new format with Word 2007. Users of older versions (2003 and I think 2000) are automatically prompted to download a conversion program from MS when they try to open the file.”
I thought Tom meant that if one wishes to open, say a Word 2000 file using Word 2007, one has to use a separate conversion program. If Tom meant that to open a Word 2007 file using, say Word 2000, then he certainly is correct in saying that a separate conversion program is needed. This is what was done when I was working with the Europeans, who had an older version of Word than did I.
-c
Posted by Tom S.
Feb 28, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Cassius wrote:
>Perhaps I misunderstood Tom S. when he said, “There’s a new format with Word 2007.
>Users of older versions (2003 and I think 2000) are automatically prompted to
>download a conversion program from MS when they try to open the file.”
>
>I thought Tom
>meant that if one wishes to open, say a Word 2000 file using Word 2007, one has to use a
>separate conversion program. If Tom meant that to open a Word 2007 file using, say Word
>2000, then he certainly is correct in saying that a separate conversion program is
>needed. This is what was done when I was working with the Europeans, who had an older
>version of Word than did I.
My apologies for not being clearer.
I should point out that the downloaded program does the conversion automatically whenever you try to open the newer format with the older version. I made it sound like it was a separate program that you had to run first. It is, in fact, pretty seamless and invisible. They’ve actually done a decent job.
Sorry about that.
Tom S.