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Print to text file?
Is there a way to print to a text file in Word 2003?
I want to print a list of styles (using the "Print What: Styles" choice on the Print screen), then bring it into Word and manipulate it. Or is there any alternative way to accomplish this? Thanks. |
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Print to text file?
You can Save As .txt .
On Jan 18, 3:10*pm, Eric wrote: Is there a way to print to a text file in Word 2003? I want to print a list of styles (using the "Print What: Styles" choice on the Print screen), then bring it into Word and manipulate it. Or is there any alternative way to accomplish this? Thanks. |
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I don't think you're understanding what I want to do. I don't want to save
the document to a file. I know how to do that. The Print panel permits printing several things other than documents. One thing is a list of styles. (See "Print What" under File/Print.) I want to direct that list to a file, rather than to the printer. "grammatim" wrote: You can Save As .txt . On Jan 18, 3:10 pm, Eric wrote: Is there a way to print to a text file in Word 2003? I want to print a list of styles (using the "Print What: Styles" choice on the Print screen), then bring it into Word and manipulate it. Or is there any alternative way to accomplish this? Thanks. |
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Print to text file?
You can set the printer to Generic/Text Only and then use "Print to file."
My experience is that the result contains a lot of garbage, but you might be able to sift out the worthwhile content from it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Eric" wrote in message ... Is there a way to print to a text file in Word 2003? I want to print a list of styles (using the "Print What: Styles" choice on the Print screen), then bring it into Word and manipulate it. Or is there any alternative way to accomplish this? Thanks. |
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Suzanne - Thanks for the suggestion. It does create a text file, as I wanted.
You're right that the formatting is strange. (I'm doing "Print What: Styles".) It's got lots of extraneous blanks in it - for example, paragraphs of 200 characters, with runs of 20-40 consecutive blanks, but which are not word-wrapped. I can't figure out what's happening. I don't see anything wrong wih the paragraph formattaing. Even when I apply Normal style to the whole document, many of the lines run off the right edge of the page. Strange. It's interesting to try to figure it out, but I think I may have a case where it's better just to retype the whole darn thing by hand ... unless you have a better suggestion. My goal is to take the contents of the Style and Formatting pane, particularly the list of styles, and to get it into a file, as part of a style guide. Thanks for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can set the printer to Generic/Text Only and then use "Print to file." My experience is that the result contains a lot of garbage, but you might be able to sift out the worthwhile content from it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Eric" wrote in message ... Is there a way to print to a text file in Word 2003? I want to print a list of styles (using the "Print What: Styles" choice on the Print screen), then bring it into Word and manipulate it. Or is there any alternative way to accomplish this? Thanks. |
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You can certainly run a find operation to get rid of the excess spaces, but
it may still be easier to retype it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Eric" wrote in message ... Suzanne - Thanks for the suggestion. It does create a text file, as I wanted. You're right that the formatting is strange. (I'm doing "Print What: Styles".) It's got lots of extraneous blanks in it - for example, paragraphs of 200 characters, with runs of 20-40 consecutive blanks, but which are not word-wrapped. I can't figure out what's happening. I don't see anything wrong wih the paragraph formattaing. Even when I apply Normal style to the whole document, many of the lines run off the right edge of the page. Strange. It's interesting to try to figure it out, but I think I may have a case where it's better just to retype the whole darn thing by hand ... unless you have a better suggestion. My goal is to take the contents of the Style and Formatting pane, particularly the list of styles, and to get it into a file, as part of a style guide. Thanks for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can set the printer to Generic/Text Only and then use "Print to file." My experience is that the result contains a lot of garbage, but you might be able to sift out the worthwhile content from it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Eric" wrote in message ... Is there a way to print to a text file in Word 2003? I want to print a list of styles (using the "Print What: Styles" choice on the Print screen), then bring it into Word and manipulate it. Or is there any alternative way to accomplish this? Thanks. |
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Eric wrote:
My goal is to take the contents of the Style and Formatting pane, particularly the list of styles, and to get it into a file, as part of a style guide. For this type of job, I personally would use SnagIt to capture the content of the task pane. If you have a lot of styles you would have to capture in sections and paste them together in the SnagIt editor. For style guide documentation, this has the additional advantage of presenting what you see on screen and adds the benefit of annotation (there are lots of examples of the use of SnagIt in the guides on my web site) . SnagIt is not free (but is good value for such a handy tool). There is a fully working trial available so you can see if it suits you before forking out any money. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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