Re: Adapting an outline

[Jukka-Pekka Takala <optl_jpt@nospam.cc.helsinki.fi>]

Tom, 

Have you tried Insert, Outline level, Combine (delete heading)? Works
for me (if I read you right) -- j-p takala

> In using NB5, I find it useful to do the initial draft of a paper using an 
>outline 
> framework.  I'm always reorganizing my thoughts as I write; and shifting 
> material from one outline component to another, and shifting the order and 
> levels of the components is quite easy.  The outline structure helps my 
> feeble brain.  Hacking away in this manner I eventually end up with 
> something that's actually logical and readable.  Then the trouble starts.
> 
> What I want to do next is to get rid of most of the component headings.  But 
> no!  NB doesn't want me to do that.  As far as I've been able to discover, it 
> won't let me delete a heading without deleting the whole component, body 
> text and all.  Now these headings were quite useful to me as I was writing, 
> but to the reader they are just clutter.  Hence, my question:

> 
> Is there a way to convert an outline framework into a manuscript form, which 
> I could then edit like any other NB document, getting rid of headers, some 
> indentations, and other things as I please in my final draft?  I do hope so.
> 
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> Tom F. Driver
> New York City
> <tfd3@nospam.columbia.edu>
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