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Using Opal

The following procedure appears to allow exporting Opal outlines back to Acta (or at least to Dyno Notepad).  Some advanced content may be lost.

1. Select Labels:Bullets (clear bullet text if you like)
2. Select Export:Text File:Mac OS Roman
3. Add .txt to file name (and make name legal in OS9 if nec.)
4. Click Save
5. In Acta, select Open:Text Format (file name will appear as a folder but Open will just open the file, not try to open it as a folder)
6. Click Open
7. Voila!

The bullets part is the key as it tabs the text file

All graphics will be lost with this procedure.

Any text export should be tabbed -- if not, please file a bug.

This appears to fail with very large outlines - perhaps due to a limitation in Dyno Notepad text import?

Text export with labels set to "None" does not tab the file for me but it doesn't bother me.

Oops!

The failure to Tab the output file with Labels:None selected only occurs when the Bullets text has been cleared (even though Labels:Bullets is not selected)

Odd but unusual