| To write information from Personal Knowbase articles to an external text file:
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 | Select the Export command from the File menu.
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| The Export Articles Setup dialog box is displayed.
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| From the Export Range box, select which articles to write to the file.
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| You may export all the articles in your data file, only the tagged articles, the currently selected articles (if a list of articles is selected), or just the current article (if an Article Window is the current window).
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| From the Export What box, make sure that Titles & Article Text is selected.
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| To sort the articles by their article dates, select Dates from the Sort by box.
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| If you leave Titles selected, the articles are sorted by their titles.
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| Select the OK button.
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| The Export dialog box is displayed.
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| Use this dialog box to select the folder and name of the text file you want to write.
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| Leave the option in the Save as Type box at Text Files.
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| Select the OK button.
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| The text file is now written to disk. Note that any font formatting in your articles is not exported to text files.
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| Before exporting, you may want to change the header for the exported file. Select the File Properties command from the File menu to edit the Export Header.
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| TIP: | To change the width of the lines in your exported text file, set the Line Length for Text Files option from the Export tab of the Preferences Dialog Box (File Menu).
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| Other Procedures for Exporting:
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| Exporting Articles to a Cardfile File
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| Exporting Articles to Web Pages
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| Exporting Articles to an RTF File
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| Related Procedures:
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| Importing from a Text File
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| Printing Information
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| See Also:
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| Export Command (File Menu)
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| Export Dialog Box
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| File Properties Command (File Menu)
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