Re: Xy to Word

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

I just converted my big Xy 3.55 ms into Word 6.0. Here's how I did it.

First, in XyWrite, I had distinguished the different levels of headings
with tabs: no tabs (Roman caps) for level 1, 1 tab for level 2, 2 tabs for
level 3, etc. I printed it out, and it looked OK, but it was all in Press
Roman monospaced.

I replaced the Roman caps with "
" (an arbitrary string, following html
convention), the 1 tab with "
", etc.

Then I imported it as a file into Word. I replaced 
 with Heading 1 from
the Format->Style menu, etc., down to Heading 4. You actually can search
and replace a style in Word, even though you don't see visible coding as
you do in Xy or WordPerfect.

After a little cleaning up, it worked very well.

Norman

At 03:00 PM 8/13/01 -0400, Norman Bauman wrote:
>
>I finished the latest draft of my 20,000-word article in Xy 3.55, and I'm
>going to convert it to MS Word.
>
>Next question: I'm using 3 or 4 levels of headings. I found, to my
>amazement, that the major headings I had created in XyWrite, with Roman
>numerals in the format "I. First Part", converted into a "Heading 1"
>format. Apparently Word recognizes some formats, including upper-case
>Roman, as highest-level headings.
>
>I assume I could also create formats in XyWrite that would convert to
>Heading 2 and Heading 3 in Word. Does anybody know about this? Could I use
>extra carrier returns, or tab indets?
>
>It would be much better if I could work in XyWrite and import the drafts
>into Word, rather than importing the latest draft into Word and working in
>Word from that point on.
>
>Norman


-------------------------------------------------------
Norman Bauman
411 W. 54 St. Apt. 2D
New York, NY 10019
(212) 977-3223
http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman
-------------------------------------------------------