Export from BrainStorm to PowerPoint

[david]

To create an outline which PowerPoint will understand, create a list of slide titles separated by a blank entry. 'Promote' each slide title and add the detail at lower level(s)

At the top level, select all the slide titles and blank entries. Then Write to a file with 'Use tabs instead and 'Only output selected entries' selected.

Open PowerPoint and choose File open, Files of type "All outlines", and point at the file you just created.

[Greg Pfister]

I just tried this with Powerpoint from Office XP, SP3. It didn't work, and I asked why here.

Well, I've figured it out. Things I did wrong:

(a) You do have to write a .txt file. I was trying to get PowerPoint to understand a .brn file, which it doesn't do.

(b) You really do have to only write selected entries. (Did that wrong a few times, too.) If you don't, the root becomes the title of the single slide you get. Silly Powerpoint.

Anyway, I've now got it under control, and I could wish there were as simple a way to import into Word. But that's for the WIBNI forum.

Thanks for a simple, useful product.

[david]

Hello Greg.

Yes, with Write you can call a file what you like. TXT is fine. .brn is reserved for BrainStorm's proprietary (sorry!) format. We'll get to XML one day, honest.

You can export to Word.

http://www.brainstormsw.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=175

Whether this is seen as 'simple' is another matter. It works though.

You can also Write to the clipboard and just paste into Word. That's not very smart though.