Thursday, March 22, 2012

Exporting a topic from BOL

Is there an easy method to export a topic out of BOL?

For example ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/instsql9/html/309b9dac-0b3a-4617-85ef-c4519ce9d014.htm

I'd like to export this to MS Word, I need to send this information to a large distrubtion list for review and I'm find it rather diffucult. Sending the entire BOL files is not a option.

A satifactory option would be to load BOL to Windows SharePoint Services. I'd want the enitre document to be load not just an copy that a user would install on thier local workstation.

Here are a couple of possibilities.

1. Assuming everyone on the distribution list has internet access, you may want to send them a link to the equivalent topics located on MSDN. For example, the topic you referenced can be found here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143504(SQL.90).aspx. The main entry point to BOL is here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214(SQL.90).aspx.

or

2. Copy/paste the topic into Word. In the BOL topic, right-click and choose Select All. Right-click again and choose Copy. Open Word and paste into an open document. The formatting is a bit odd, but it may be satisfactory for your needs. The links to other topics won't work of course.

What we do in our group is download Books Online to a single server and then have users access the server using Remote Desktop. That might be an alternative for you also.

Regards,

Gail

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