[bksvol-discuss] Re: long synopsis, what kind of file?

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:44:13 -0800 (PST)

Thanks, Julie. That's good to know. I'll try it next
time and see. I've usually saved mine as a new Word
file without an extension and then saved as rtf and
put the extension back myself in the title part, but
next time I'll try not doing that. One less chance for
a typing error . smile

Cindy

--- Julie Morales <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Cindy. The only thing I could add to this is
> that, if you use the menus 
> and scroll down to whatever format you want your
> file to be, you don't then 
> have to go back and change the extension. It does
> that automatically upon 
> saving, or at least mine does, and I suspect most
> do. Take care.
> Julie Morales
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 10:00 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long synopsis, what
> kind of file?
> 
> 
> No, Lissi.  I gather now that you downloaded a txt
> file.Text formats don't save things like italics or
> diacritical marks, so if you're going to stay in
> that
> you don't have to worry about them. I don't think it
> saves gard page breaks either, does it?
> 
> If you want your book to be saved in rtf  you need
> to
> Save As (in my Word program it' s in the File menu)
> and scroll down to to Rich Text Format. Then you
> need
> to delete the dot txt and put dot rtf after the
> title
> of the book.
> 
> If your book is txt and you want the synopsis to be
> txt,  go to the file menu, pull down Save As, then
> scroll down to Text Only. The only differences
> between
> txt, rtf and doc seem to be formatting.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Cindy
> 
> 
> -- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Cindy, Mike, Gary and Everyone,
> >
> > The steps you both sent sound very doable. My
> > question is, if I write the
> > synopsis in word, how does writing dot txt
> magically
> > make it a text file? I
> > mean, would RTF make it rich text, or would .XYZ
> > cause my computer to have a
> > stroke? Seriously, are the letters after the dot a
> > code that tells the
> > computer to transform whatever you've written in
> to
> > a certain kind of
> > communication to other computers?
> >
> > I won't be so silly to make the fact that
> > computerese doesn't make sense to
> > me stop me from following your instructions. I
> have
> > 3 beautiful completely
> > validated books lined up pleading to be uploaded
> and
> > I've got to take the
> > leap.
> >
> > Always With Love,
> >
> > Lissi
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 7:14 PM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long synopsis, what
> > kind of file?
> >
> >
> > > Lissi
> > >
> > > I save mine as .txt files and cut and paste them
> > into the appropriate
> > > fields.
> > > If the book has book jacket info, this normally
> > makes for good long
> > > synopsis material.
> > > I edit it removing stuff that I feel doesn't
> > belong.
> > > But I would never attempt to write one from
> > scratch nor is it acceptible
> > > to use other copyrighted material verbatim.
> > > Anything in the book itself can be copied
> directly
> > into your synopsis.
> > >
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