hb1981 Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 hi, i have a screenplay written in storyist. i am trying to export it to word but some of the formatting is being lost when it converts. i had thought it was only some capitalization and line spacing that had got messed up, and was grudgingly going through and manually fixing it, but then i noticed that from about halfway in, the margins for the dialogue begin to be too wide. i don't want to fix this manually and i shouldn't have to! i've tried a previous suggestion of exporting as an rtf then coverting to a doc but the same thing happens. i've tried on two macs, one running snow leopard and the other running tiger. would opening the exported file on a windows pc make a difference? any ideas very welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted June 1, 2010 Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 hi, i have a screenplay written in storyist. i am trying to export it to word but some of the formatting is being lost when it converts. i had thought it was only some capitalization and line spacing that had got messed up, and was grudgingly going through and manually fixing it, but then i noticed that from about halfway in, the margins for the dialogue begin to be too wide. i don't want to fix this manually and i shouldn't have to! i've tried a previous suggestion of exporting as an rtf then coverting to a doc but the same thing happens. i've tried on two macs, one running snow leopard and the other running tiger. would opening the exported file on a windows pc make a difference? any ideas very welcome. Hi hb1981, I'm surprised that exporting as RTF is giving you trouble. What version of Word are you using to read the exported RTF? If you're comfortable sending me the Storyist file, I'd be happy to take a look at it for you and send you back the exported file. Or, if you use iChat, we could do a quick screen sharing session and you could show me what you're seeing. -Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hb1981 Posted June 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2010 thanks for the speedy reply! it's word mac 2008 that i'm using. i would be happy to email you the file if you want to give me your email address. thanks, h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcellor Posted December 25, 2011 Report Share Posted December 25, 2011 I'm having the same export problem with a Mac. Has this problem been resolved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impyjones Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 Having a problem with exporting to rtf., docx. or doc. and keeping any kind of formatting at all. HELP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marguerite Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 Hi, Impyjones-- I export to RTF all the time and have no trouble retaining formatting. Even Pages, which doesn't recognize RTF styles, normally retains the original formatting (italics, bold, etc.) while converting all the styles to Normal or the equivalent. Could you be more explicit about what exactly you are doing? Best, Marguerite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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