export data into pagemaker file

Export data form pagemaker file

1. Open the file.
2. Click on the "T" in the small toolbox
3. Click anywhere within the text.
4. Pull down the Edit menu and point to "Edit Story" (if "Edit Layout" is selected, the screen might show large black areas, have text in huge font or on top of other text, and so forth). If there were any garbage characters (not part of the text, but data about fonts and so forth) at the top and/or bottom of the document, these should no longer display, and the first line of content should display at the top of the file.
5. Pull down the Edit menu and click on "Select All." This should highlight the entire contents of the file.
6. Pull down the File menu and click on "Export." You will have to enter the name of the file you want created for the export (use the filename format goldstein-eng-tib-dict-t.rtf, where t is the original file). For the file format, select Rich Text Format (.rtf file extension).
7. Open the .rtf file and save it as a .txt (plain text) file with the filename format goldstein-eng-tib-dict-t.txt
8. Create a new Word doc that will receive the content of the file after it is converted. Use the filename format goldstein-eng-tib-dict-t-youtso-converted.txt (note: this must be a plain text (.txt) file.