Excel Songbook

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You can't use EXCEL as a direct viewer but you can use EXCEL by doing these steps.

Using Winword as your Viewer and Maintain Formatting:
1. Select WINWORD.EXE as your Viewer.
2. Click "Create SongBook"
3. Click "View the SongBook"
4. When Winword opens SongBook, click EDIT and then Click SELECT ALL
5. Click EDIT and then Click COPY
6. Open EXCEL
7. Right Click the TABLE A1 and Click PASTE.
8. Depending on the amount of Data to be Pasted, wait 1 - 2 minutes for the data to get pasted into the Excel Spreadsheet.


Using WORDPAD as your Viewer and lose Formatting:
1. Select WORDPAD.EXE as your VIEWER.
2. Click "Create a SONGBOOK"
3. Click "View the Songbook"
4. When WORDPAD opens your Songbook, Click FILE and SAVE AS.
5. Near the Bottom, you will see TWO dialog Boxes...Click the DOWN ARROW that is located to the RIGHT of the Box labeled, "Save As Type:"
6. Select "Text Document." Notice that, in the FILE NAME Box, the SongBook.RTF has now become SongBook.TXT
7. Click the SAVE Button.
8. Click YES to lose all formatting.
9. Close WORDPAD and OPEN Excel. Excel should OPEN to a BLANK Spreadsheet.
10. Click DATA that is located on the Menu across the Top.
11. Click GET EXTERNAL DATA
12. Click IMPORT TEXT FILE
13. Navigate to Hoster's SongBook Folder and click on Songbook.Txt You should see the Text Import Wizard.
14. Click Next...Leave settings AS IS.
15. Click Next, again...Leave settings AS IS.
16. Click FINISH.
17. Click OK. Data is now in an EXCEL Spreadsheet.