Re: Getting stuff from BrainStorm to Word, etc.

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-08-10 11:10:05

CTRL+T first. (F8 does the same thing)

The idea is you mark an item (Ctrl+M) which gives it a green rectangular mark. You can then browse through your outline and hitting Ctrl+T will move the entry you are in to immediatly above the marked entry.

Ctrl+Shift+T will copy the entry to immediatly above the marked entry.

Until you remove the mark, you can move all through your model throwing entries to above the marked entry.

There is a Word template included with Brainstorm that has formatting and a macro to turn the Brainstorm model into a Word Outline. Its in your Brainstorm program directory

There are however some problems with this as recent discussions in the Brainstorm forum have identified. There is a bit in the help file, which you should read first, but it needs revised in light of what is written below

Below is the last word on getting it to work from the Developer, copied form the Brainstorm users forum, which you should join:

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Update and, hopefully, a full examination of the Word stuff.

First of all, I am using the version of Word that I got with Office XP
Home - Word 2002.

I think I now understand more clearly what’s going on here:

BSW.dot contains two things: a format for displaying and editing stuff
in Word and a macro for converting tabbed indented material into an
outline.

You need your security level set to ‘Low’ to accept the macro part of
the template. You can change it back once you’ve taken it on board.

If you put the Macro into Normal.dot then it’s available at all times,
regardless of whether the document is opened with BSW.dot.

Here’s the sequence I went through:

Clean up:

I removed my bsw.dot template from Word’s Normal.dot and also from
the templates folder in ... /[user name] /Application data /Microsoft
/Templates. For some reason, I could not erase it from the ‘New from
Template’ area of Word.

Add BSW.dot:

So, starting clean, I put the latest copy of BSW.dot into the
templates area. I invoked it from the ‘New from Template’/General
Templates area of Word. (Although I later discovered that the bsw.dot
that was already there started working again as well.)

This served to provide a format for the new document, but the Macro
was not accessible at this point. But I could, as Graham pointed out,
see it in the Visual Basic area and I could run it from there.

Add Outline Macro to Normal.dot:

I opened Tools/Macro/Macros…/Organizer and, in the left drop-down,
selected BSW.dot. This put Outline into the left pane.

I copied Outline into Normal.dot in the right pane.

[I should mention at this point that the Outline name is probably more
correct than BrainStorm because it will work for any incoming tabbed
outline. I tried changing the name in Organizer and, while it changed
it for that view, this didn’t find its way out to the Macro list, even
after restarting Word.]

Assign hotkey:

There was no hot key combo associated with the macro. This is
something I shall have to investigate. There’s a chance I removed it
deliberately in case it clashed with a user’s existing settings.

However, I added a hotkey by going into Tools/Customize…/Keyboard…
then selecting Macros in categories and Outline in Macros. I chose
Ctrl+Alt+O then pressed Assign (easily forgotten, as I discovered).
Then Close/Close.

In action:

Paste a tabbed outline into a blank Word document, press your
preferred hotkey combo, and it turns into an outline according to your
chosen heading styles.

If the document was created as a New one using BSW.dot, then we have
chosen a set of heading styles for you.

Either way, if you click on Outline view, you now find the material
is presented with all the pluses and minuses in the right place.

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I haven’t paid much attention to this as I then started using NoteMap, and the brainstorm models pate directly into NoteMap perfectly and NoteMap outlines send to Word perfectly.

Graham

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