I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my question. I appreciate the input, suggestions, and help. Jeff Jeff Rutherford jeff at jeffrutherford.com 413 475-0087 - phone On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:59 AM, Mik Muller wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > The text editor macro idea sounds easiest to me. I use Textpad(.com). > The whole operation would take 15 seconds. > > That said, I agree that while cutting edge and gimicky, it's still > gimicky, and seems a little unweildy. Ten pages 140 characters at a > time comes to like 70 tweets in a row, no? > > Mik > 413-320-5336 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 17, 2009, at 4:02 PM, "Claudia Gere" > <Claudia at ClaudiaGereCo.com> wrote: > >> ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's >> area. >> ** If you did, we all thank you. >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> Claudia Gere & Co. LLC >> Helping smart people become outstanding authorsT >> Follow me on Twitter: @claudiagere >> >> Aspiring Author Webinar Series: Write Your Book in 2010 >> Call for details 413 259 1741 >> >> Claudia at ClaudiaGereCo.com >> www.ClaudiaGereCo.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net >> [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of >> Jeff >> Rutherford >> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:06 PM >> To: Hidden-Tech Tech >> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Twitter-software question >> >> ** 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 >> jeff at jeffrutherford.com >> 413 475-0087 - phone >> >> Enjoy the season - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UmlMR6wXWQ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> >> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion >> list. >> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> >> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion >> list. >> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members