Work with Microsoft Word

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The Word Export feature exports your map in outline form to Word. You can export the entire map, or just selected topics.

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If you want to include a graphical image of your map in a Word document, you can achieve this by creating an image file from your map and then inserting this into Word.

MindManager can import a Word document and transform the text into a map. An essential part of this process is the proper structuring of the Word document.

The document is processed according to the styles it contains. MindManager uses the Heading styles to determine the map topic hierarchy: text in Heading 1 style becomes Main topics, Heading 2 and greater are subtopics. Text in the Normal style (or any other style that is not a Heading style) is included as text notes for the topic directly preceding it.

 

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Export an entire map to a Word document

  1. Open the map.
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  1. Do one of the following:

    On the Home tab, click the arrow next to the Share button. In the Share drop-down, select Export to Microsoft Word. OR Click the File tab, and click Share. Then under Export, click select Export to Microsoft Word. OR Click the File tab , click Save As, and in the Save as type list, select Microsoft Word Documents.

     

Mindjet online features
You can save the Word document to Mindjet Files online. See Save a map as a different file type in Mindjet Files for more information.

  1. The default name for the document will be the map name, but you can change this and the location where it is saved. Click Save.

  2. The Microsoft Word Export Settings dialog appears, so you can tailor the export to your liking.

  1. Click Export when you have set the options to your liking.

  2. A message appears when the export is done. You can Open the document to check it, Open Folder where it was saved or Close to return to MindManager.

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Export selected topics to a Word document

  1. To append the exported content to the end of a Word document open it .

  2. In MindManager, open the map and select the topics you want to export.

  3. Right-click on one of the topics, click Send to, and then click Microsoft Word.
    (Only the selected topics are exported. If a document is already open, the topics are added at the end of the document.)

  4. Select the export options in the Word Export Settings dialog (described above).

  5. Switch to Word to see your exported content. Remember to save the document before exiting Word.

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Import an entire Word document

  1. Click the File tab , click Import, and then click Import Microsoft Word Document.
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  1. Select the file you want to import and click Open.

You'll see a status message appear as the file is processed, then the new map will appear in MindManager's Map View window.

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Import only selected Word paragraphs

  1. Optional To add text from Word to an existing map, open the map in MindManager and select a target topic if desired.
    If no map is open in MindManager the Word content will be used to create a new map.

  2. Select the paragraph(s) in Word.

  3. Click Send to MindManager Map   on the Word ribbon.
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  1. Switch to MindManager to see the new content in the map.

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