[Hidden-tech] Twitter-software question

[Frank Aronson]

Good idea Claudia.  This approach wouldn't have occurred to me.  Here's how
*I* think:


   - Grab a free text editor
(Notepad++<http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm> is
   a particularly good freebie) that supports macro recording.
   - Copy the text from the Word document, and paste it into the text
   editor.  It should be a text file now.
   - Record a macro that goes forward 120 characters and inserts a line
   break (CR/LF).
   - Play the macro until you're done.

Both approaches should work, but I thought I'd chime in anyway!

Good luck,
Frank Aronson

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Claudia Gere <Claudia at claudiagereco.com>wrote:

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> 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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> Rutherford
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:06 PM
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> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Twitter-software question
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>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
> 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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