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Getting started

Sheetbend automates the process of finding topics in your Word documents. It also makes it easy to edit and rearrange those topics and output the new arrangements into different formats. By the end of this tutorial, you will have extracted the topics from a single Word file, rearranged them, and exported them to multiple formats.

Pre-requisites

  • Sign in to Sheetbend
  • Have a Word file that uses styled headings (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) to divide topics.

Step 1: Break the document into topics

From the Source page, you can get started this way:

  1. Click + Add sources on the Sources page to select the source document to extract the topics from. (Don't worry, you can always add more documents to your list of sources later.)
  2. Click extract topics. Sheetbend will ask you to decide which heading level provides the most helpful topic markers.
  3. Click Extract and wait while Sheetbend uses AI to pull individual topics out of your document. This can take a little while, so be patient!
  4. Review the topic breaks that Sheetbend suggests. You can join topics back together or tell Sheetbend where to divide the topics further.
  5. Click Save n topics to Library.

Step 2: Remix topics into new output files

Once you have a library of topics, you can start remixing them into new sets of lecture notes. First go to the Compose tab at the top of the page.

Your topics are shown on the left. You can arrange topics into maps, which can then be exported to new output files.

Note: You can edit topics as you put them into maps, but remember that this will save changes to the original topic file!

  1. Give the map a name and click Save.
  2. Find the topics you want and click Add to add them to the map.
  3. Rearrange by dragging the topic handles.
  4. Edit individual topics if needed.
  5. Click the PDF button to export to that format.
  6. Click Word and then PowerPoint to export to those formats.

That's it! You have now freed your topics from their document-based prisons and liberated them into new arrangements and export formats.

The PDF version of your remixed topics will open in a new browser tab. The Word and PowerPoint files will be saved to a folder on your computer.