Excellent, rich featured

Really fine program with lots of features. A bit expensive, but worth the price. One trouble I have had is that it will not export to enough useable file types, and the RTF it generates look terrible in standard RTF readers (Bean, MS Word, TextEdit), and has strange carriage return anomalies all over it..bugs. Maybe RTF format is such an old, tottery standard that it will never produce fabulous looking documents.

Another problem is that exporting directly to MS Word format creates a document that you can see as an outline ONLY in Outline View in MS Word. And a big issue there is that only the first column of the original OO document shows up. I cant think of anything more useless. Somebody needs to show me how to use that feature in OO.

However, the best way I have found to export an OmniOutliner Pro document is to print it to a PDF using Acrobat 11, and then Save As Other in Acrobat to an MS Word Document. All the original document is there and editable, even though doing so is quite difficult and clumsy. My take is that if you want an printable outline, dont export. Simply use OmniOutliner and its extensive style formatting features to do a really good job, then dump it from there to a PDF for general publication.

Another really fine feature of OmniOutliner is that it can be used realtime in a meeting to take notes with no trouble at all, which is why I bought it. The user interface is simple enough to bring up a template for a predicted meeting and go to town with no fumbling around. The multiple column feature is also a plus over other notetaking programs such as Notetaker.

Strongly recommend.

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