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Pacific_Aedan
I found the Tree Graph template for PowerPoint and saw that I could use it
for plotting stories. I think it would make it much easier to keep
complicated connections clear. But I want to use it in OneNote 07.
If this leads to development of a template or formatted NoteBook that
doesn't already exist, I wish it would:
*Allow a Landscape View for Legal Size paper (in case I ever print it.)
*Let you move the blocks as modules like other OneNote notes. (I copied the
PP into OneNote, and it's just a whole picture, I can't edit.)
*Automatically format the "next page" (that is that on page one you may start
at a single cause, breaking to 2 effects, breaking to 2 effects off of each
of those effects, leaving page one with a total of 7 modules. So the second
page would begin with lines connecting off the left margin at the level the
boxes were on page one, and then would tree off to 2 or 3 more lateral lines
to 2 or 3 more modules, and so on.)
Or, if it would be easier to code or easier to use, it could just run
together in one long scroll until you decide you’re finished. It could have
a ruler and a dotted line (at the printable edge ) demarking the look if you
saved it this way, and if there were blocks cut in half at the end of a page
or if the vertical connection line would be obliterated by the page break you
could see the dotted line, and move the modules. The line would just follow
the module where ever you set it down, like in the editing of a picture in
Photoshop, but when you set the module down (because it's preformatted) the
vertical connector line would grow and the lateral connector line would put
itself to right angle. So you could move a module up or down and left or
right and still end up with automatically connected and right angled blocks
that aligned to a grid (like icons on a desk top that always are in straight
lines, and just scoot to the next possible area, if you try to set it down in
a non-aligned area.
*The grid would run straight across if you needed it to. (Like if event one
caused 3
Events/effects, and the first effect generated 8 more events, but the second
one
caused only 2 and the third didn't cause anything.) So the first set would
be long, maybe 3 pages wide, but the last one would be short and confined to
the first page. Yet it would still be in the Tree format. (Like any
genealogy chart, that had a few people with no descendants on it.)
*The basic Genealogy or Tree Chart NoteBook could come with a default format
of one module always leads to 3 others, and if you need another you could
“right-click†on the space just below and choose “create new module†and it
would appear directly below. And if you need less than three there you just
“right-click†and choose “delete module.â€
*You could add pages to the notebook that are unformatted, so you could add
pages of notes, stories, details about an event on the Chart page next or
previous, or a synopsis at the end of the NoteBook.
Anyway, thanks for any help. Aedan
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for plotting stories. I think it would make it much easier to keep
complicated connections clear. But I want to use it in OneNote 07.
If this leads to development of a template or formatted NoteBook that
doesn't already exist, I wish it would:
*Allow a Landscape View for Legal Size paper (in case I ever print it.)
*Let you move the blocks as modules like other OneNote notes. (I copied the
PP into OneNote, and it's just a whole picture, I can't edit.)
*Automatically format the "next page" (that is that on page one you may start
at a single cause, breaking to 2 effects, breaking to 2 effects off of each
of those effects, leaving page one with a total of 7 modules. So the second
page would begin with lines connecting off the left margin at the level the
boxes were on page one, and then would tree off to 2 or 3 more lateral lines
to 2 or 3 more modules, and so on.)
Or, if it would be easier to code or easier to use, it could just run
together in one long scroll until you decide you’re finished. It could have
a ruler and a dotted line (at the printable edge ) demarking the look if you
saved it this way, and if there were blocks cut in half at the end of a page
or if the vertical connection line would be obliterated by the page break you
could see the dotted line, and move the modules. The line would just follow
the module where ever you set it down, like in the editing of a picture in
Photoshop, but when you set the module down (because it's preformatted) the
vertical connector line would grow and the lateral connector line would put
itself to right angle. So you could move a module up or down and left or
right and still end up with automatically connected and right angled blocks
that aligned to a grid (like icons on a desk top that always are in straight
lines, and just scoot to the next possible area, if you try to set it down in
a non-aligned area.
*The grid would run straight across if you needed it to. (Like if event one
caused 3
Events/effects, and the first effect generated 8 more events, but the second
one
caused only 2 and the third didn't cause anything.) So the first set would
be long, maybe 3 pages wide, but the last one would be short and confined to
the first page. Yet it would still be in the Tree format. (Like any
genealogy chart, that had a few people with no descendants on it.)
*The basic Genealogy or Tree Chart NoteBook could come with a default format
of one module always leads to 3 others, and if you need another you could
“right-click†on the space just below and choose “create new module†and it
would appear directly below. And if you need less than three there you just
“right-click†and choose “delete module.â€
*You could add pages to the notebook that are unformatted, so you could add
pages of notes, stories, details about an event on the Chart page next or
previous, or a synopsis at the end of the NoteBook.
Anyway, thanks for any help. Aedan
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...811a-d5b0481675b5&dg=microsoft.public.onenote