Technical Notes

Exporting Text from Notebook

There have been requests for a way to export text from a Notebook to a file readable by various PC software. While there is no export facility from the Notebook either on the Z-7000 or on PalmConnect, it is possible to use the America Online (AOL) text editor to make ASCII format files. This method cannot convert ink entries, only text. This entire operation must be done on the Z-7000.

Open your Notebook file on the PDA, and open a text page to copy. Select the entire page of the Notebook by tapping on the text 5 taps (Also see technote "Keyboard Edits"). You may also mark regions of the text by pressing the stylus down at one end of the text to be selected, hold it there until you get an edit cursor, then drag the stylus across the text to the other end of the text to be selected (See Z-7000 Users Guide). To copy the selected region, you must open the Toolbox icon. Tap the Copy Tool.

Now, tap the launcher icon and select America Online. Tap the File menu and select New. Tap the Edit menu and select Paste. The copied text from the Notebook will appear in the editor. Tap the File menu and select Save. Give a name for the file to save to. Adding the suffix ".txt" will make the file more easily identified as ASCII text by other software packages.

! Conditions: The capacity of the AOL editor is only 8k. You may need to save out several separate text files to save your entire Notebook, since each page of a Notebook can contain up to 30k. For several short pages, you may paste into the same text file several times, switching back and forth between AOL and your Notebook. The files will automatically be saved to the Document folder.

Use PalmConnect to link these text files over to the PC just the same way you would link a Notebook or Address Book file. If you use the File>Copy method of File Linking from the PC, you can copy the desired files from the Z-7000 to any folder/directory on your PC (See Z-7000 User's Guide). Otherwise, you may use the Drag-and-Drop method and put them in the Document folder on PalmConnect.

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