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I was thinking of using this App to page turn my music files. I do have a question. This would apply to Android devices and my Windows 11 Lap Top. The question is that most of my music is in Microsoft Word files. Can I use the MobileSheets App to select a file from Word to use with my Page turner foot pedal? I only have the free Adobe App and hence can not modify these files. Thanks for any help.
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MS doesn't handle Word files - you would need to use Word to open each file and write it to a "pdf printer" - I use Cutepdf but others are available (including "Microsoft Print To PDF" that I believe is standard on a Win 10+ system)
Doing this, converts the word document into a pdf which you can then import into MS.
If you do this, test on one or two files first to check it is what you want.
Having established the method, convert a large number of files into a new, dedicated folder. Having created the pdf's, perform a block import to get them into MS (faster than doing one at a time).
Should you need to do it in chunks, empty the dedicated folder after you have imported a chunk of files; you can then import everything that gets subsequently created in the folder.
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At some point I'm going to upgrade the PDF library I'm using, and the more expensive version of the library supports rendering Microsoft Word files. I need to test this to see how well it works, but if the quality is acceptable, then I'm going to add support for adding Word files directly to MobileSheets.
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