[Hidden-tech] Twitter-software question

[Claudia Gere]

Jeff,

What comes immediately to mind is to adjust the page margins to
automatically limit the line length at 120 characters per line (120 will
allow for retweeting). If you want to make it 140 or fewer, then you'll have
to create a custom page size.

Change the font throughout the document to Courier New, 10 pt., which has a
character count of 12 per inch.

Convert your file to plain text (Save as .txt). 

Delete all the paragraph marks/breaks (Replace All ^p with nothing) 

Set your Page Layout to landscape.

Make your left and right margins of an 11-inch page to .50, which leaves a
10-inch line (or longer if you want 140 characters).

Decide whether to leave hyphenation on or off.

That should make each line approximately 120 characters or fewer. 

Hope this helps, Claudia


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I work with a book publisher on certain book marketing/PR projects. We're
considering taking a chapter of a new book and chopping it up and tweeting
the entire chapter - piece by piece.

However, I don't really want to manually have to go through a 8-10 page
document and cut it up 140 characters at a time.

Do you know of any software that I could cut and paste the text and have it
automatically divide it up into 140 character chunks? Is there some hidden
feature within Microsoft Word that would do something like that?


Jeff

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