Outlines of outlines

Posted by Hugh Pile
Oct 4, 2006 at 08:40 AM

The template is a UR template. It’s not complicated to make, but it has a couple of stages that are covered in the UR Help and UR’s own forum. What you end up with is a Word document - can be an outline, can be any other Word document - in the templates branch of your UR data explorer pane. You can then use this to create any Word document - including a proper Word outline - and store it anywhere else in your data explorer tree. What you are effectively doing as far as I can see is making Word, rather than UR’s text editor, your editing tool.

It’s not perfect - only Word toolbars, not Word menus, end up in the editing pane. And the Word toolbars sitting below the UR toolbars look rather cumbersome. But as well as searching, you also have UR’s metadata available to you. And what is really good is that notes I make, say, in Outlook, and store in UR, I can just drag and drop from the UR data explorer tree directly into a Word outline in the editing pane.