There used to be a outlining tool for Microsoft Word that was a Word template. As I recall, it was somewhat expensive, and I never really looked at it. My company now forbids the use of unauthorized software on their computers, so I can't use my regular outliner, NoteMap, on the job. I figure a Word template however will be OK. Does anybody have any info about this Word template outliner?

Thanks,

-k

Word, of course, has a built-in outliner of sorts. I don't recall a pay-for add-in, but there was a free item. Problem was that every time MS changed the Word macro language, the free add-in would no longer work. I downloaded it once. If I find it, I'll post the info.

-c

I don't know of any such add-on, and I'm a fairly avid user of Word, outliners, and Word ad-ons. Still, I could have missed it, but my guess is you're thinking of 'Pocket Thinker,' which provides outlining in Outlook notes. Maybe not, since it costs only about $15.

Kropotkin wrote:

There used to be a outlining tool for Microsoft Word that was a Word template. As I
recall, it was somewhat expensive, and I never really looked at it. My company now
forbids the use of unauthorized software on their computers, so I can't use my regular
outliner, NoteMap, on the job. I figure a Word template however will be OK. Does
anybody have any info about this Word template outliner?

Thanks,

-k

Kropotkin wrote:

There used to be a outlining tool for Microsoft Word that was a Word template. >As I recall, it was somewhat expensive, and I never really looked at it.

You are probably refering to Bernard DeKoven's so-called Technography Template. It's probably still available directly from the author (as I recall I paid via a PayPal account he sent me). Last time I checked the price remained the original $100.

The template doesn't offer really any additional functionality but it is well designed for brainstorming and organising; Technography was a way to facilitate group interaction with a computer and this was this template's aim. It was developed in the 90s and I personally find it quite outdated nowadays. Unfortunately there is no trial version.

I would suggest that you invest in an outliner such as Brainstorm that can run from a USB flash disk. Brainstorm in particular provides a special Word macro for easily transforming its text-only outlines into nice looking documents that maintain the hierarchical organisation (up to 9 levels, as is Word's limitation). You should have no trouble installing the macro in your office,

alx

P.S. Here is DeKoven's website (or one of them at least)
http://www.junkyardsports.com/contact.html

Alex, yes that's it--Technography Template is the tool I was referring to. After reading about Technography, I think I'll take your suggestion and look into Brainstorm or another outliner that can run from a USB drive and works with Word.

One of the neat things about NoteMap is that it will export an outline directly to Word format, keeping the outlining and numbering format that was set up in NoteMap. If I can get a tool with close to that functionality, it will be great.

Thanks for the info and link to Bernie's site.

-k

You could try getting NoteMap to run off a USB drive. Copy the program directory over, then try running it. If it complains about a missing DLL, copy that from the Windows or System/System32 directory on your computer where NoteMap is installed to inside the NoteMap program directory on the USB drive. Often that gets things working. (The only major hangup is sometimes that your system admin at work has locked down the registry and the program tries to write to the registry.)

-- Chris

Kropotkin wrote:

Alex, yes that's it--Technography Template is the tool I was referring to. After
reading about Technography, I think I'll take your suggestion and look into
Brainstorm or another outliner that can run from a USB drive and works with Word.

One
of the neat things about NoteMap is that it will export an outline directly to Word
format, keeping the outlining and numbering format that was set up in NoteMap. If I can
get a tool with close to that functionality, it will be great.

Thanks for the info and
link to Bernie's site.

-k

If you're looking for a more traditional single-pane outliner, you could try TKoutline (http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/wiki/ It is a single executable file so runs fine from a USB drive. Outlines can be saved as ascii, html, and xml. And it is free.

Steve Z.

Kropotkin wrote:

...
One
of the neat things about NoteMap is that it will export an outline directly to Word
format, keeping the outlining and numbering format that was set up in NoteMap. If I can
get a tool with close to that functionality, it will be great.
...

Regrettably, despite several attempts to get Lexis-Nexis and CaseSoft to fix the NoteMap export to Word feature, it remains buggy. Instead, use the NoteMap rtf export and then use Word to open the exported rtf file.

The fact that the vendor is unwilling to make such an easy fix does not bode well for future versions.

-c