Work with Microsoft Word

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

• You must have Microsoft Word 2003 or later installed to use these features.

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.

• Export an entire map to a Word document
• Export selected topics to a Word document
• Import an entire Word document
• Import only selected Word paragraphs

Export an entire map to a Word document

1. Open the map.

2. Only visible topics are exported. This means you can apply a filter to hide a set of topics you don't want to include in the document.
   
   Take a look at the map in Outline View first for a general idea of what the exported Word file will look like.

2. Do one of the following:

• Click the File tab, click Export, and then click Export to Microsoft Word.

• Click the File tab , click Save As, and in the Save as type list select Microsoft Word Documents.

Mindjet Catalyst
You can save the document to a workspace by using the Save As command: click Save in Mindjet Catalyst, and then select a workspace.

3. 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.

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

• On the General tab, choose the outline numbering scheme, which information to include, and export options for other map elements.    

• On the Word Template tab, select the Word template for the document and how topic levels correspond to Word styles.    

• On the Advanced tab, select the treatment for relationships, hyperlinks, attachments, and map graphics.    

• By default, bitmaps are converted to metafiles on export for better compatibility with some RTF readers. Disable the MindManager Notes option setting Convert bitmaps to metafiles to disable this behavior.

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

6. 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.

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.
    

6. You can quickly create a simple text outline from part or all of your map in Word by this method:
    1. Select one or more topics (select the central topic to copy the whole map)
    2. Press CTRL+C to copy
    3. Switch to Word, and then press CTRL+V to paste.

7.  If you do not see Export to Microsoft Word on the File tab Export menu, or in the Save as type list, or in the topic shortcuts menu, see Troubleshooting Office add-ins.

Import an entire Word document

1. Click the File tab , click Import, and then click Import Microsoft Word Document.

2.  If you do not see Microsoft Word Document in the list, see Troubleshooting Office add-ins.

2. 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.

• You can also paste text from Word (and other applications) to create a topic on your current map.

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 the Send selected paragraphs to Mindjet MindManager on the main toolbar, or on the Word Ribbon's Add-ins tab.

4.  If you do not see the Send selected paragraphs to Mindjet MindManager button, see Troubleshooting Office add-ins.

4. Switch to MindManager to see the new content in the map.

See also:

Work with Microsoft Office

Filter topics

Use Outline View