[Hidden-tech] Twitter-software question

[Jeff Rutherford]

Tom,

That's a good idea. In Word, would I create that column in defining the width of a document? Or are you referring to a column in a Word table?

Jeff

Jeff Rutherford
jeff at jeffrutherford.com
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On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Tom Gajda wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> 
> In MS Word, you could create a single column that is 140 characters wide and
> paste your text into the column. Each line would represent no more than 140
> characters.
> 
> You could then cut each line at a logical point (the end of a sentence I
> assume) and paste it into your tweet.
> 
> That would at least save you from counting thousands of characters.
> 
> If I think of a better idea, I will let you know.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom 
> 
> www.msWordExpert.com 
> 
> 
> Tom Gajda
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> Thomas Paul Communications, LLC
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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
> 
> Jeff Rutherford
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