Exporting Articles to an RTF File

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To write information from Personal Knowbase articles to an external RTF file:

 

Select the Export command from the File menu.

 

The Export Articles Setup dialog box is displayed.

 

From the Export Range box, select which articles to write to the RTF file.

 

You may export all the articles in your data file, only the bookmarked articles, the currently selected articles (if a list of articles is selected), only articles highlighted in the Titles column, or just the current article (if an Article Window is the current window).

 

From the Export What box, make sure that at least Include Titles and Include Article Content are selected.

 

To sort the articles by their article dates, select Dates from the Sort by box.

 

If you leave Titles selected, the articles are sorted by their titles.

 

Select the OK button.

 

The Export dialog box is displayed.

 

Select the Rich Text Format option in the Save as Type box.

 

Use the dialog box to select the folder and name of the text file you want to write.

 

Select the OK button.

 

The RTF file is now written to disk. You can view the new file using most popular word processors.

 

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.

 

 

Other Procedures for Exporting:

Exporting Articles to a Text File

Exporting Articles to a Cardfile File

Exporting Articles to Web Pages

Exporting Articles to a Delimited File

 

Related Procedures:

Importing from an RTF File

Printing Information

 

See Also:

Export Command (File Menu)

Export Dialog Box

File Properties Command (File Menu)