Writing Outliner for MS Word Soon on BitsDuJour

Posted by 22111
Aug 2, 2013 at 03:04 PM

I see, and I did not want to spread false info.

On bitsdujour, Peter Martin wrote:

If only one has the ability to sort the titles (left side) then I would say it is perfect.

which was left uncommented by the developer there, so I falsely assumed the entries could not be moved; it now appears Martin wanted to say (I suppose) “sort automatically, alphanumerically” or something along this line.

So if I understand well:

- you have several Word files

- you “import” those into a “project” of this tool

- then, another day, you load this “project”, which in reality means the tool will load all the corresponding Word files, and present their structures within a “compound” tree, as if all these separate files were one file, and which also means there would be a virtual, global structure, in which subtitle 3.5.2 of file 12 would be item 5.8.2 within this overall structure?

- within this overall structure, you click on any entry, and you gain access to the respective Word document, at the respective position (hence a click on entry 5.8.2 would “open” document 12 at subtitle 3.5.2 in this example)?

- also, within this overall structure, you freely move parts around, as it was one single file, which means if you move around point 1.3.4 after point 12.5.6, in the tree, in the actual files the corresponding part would be deleted in one file and rewritten at the correct position within another of these files?

If my above assumptions are right now, I think this should be a tremendous piece of software.