This isnt for everyone, but I used this as a stopgap in the meantime to be able to get my sermons into the sermon editor.
I made an automated workflow for Keyboard Maestro (it's like Automator for Mac, but more powerful) that automates the steps to adding sermons to the editor.
Requirements:
What it does:
- 1. Opens the selected word documents in the Finder in Word one at a time and...
- 2. Copies all the text
- Updates the doc to docx if needed, saves, and closes Word
- Opens a new Sermon Editor Doc, and pastes in the content
- Pastes the filename as the title of the sermon
- Sets the preacher name (if its your sermon, just disable this as your name is already in there.)
- Sets the description to the file creation date (doesn’t really work)
Here is a demo of it working - https://youtu.be/YFsCCAIpOko
If you get funny results, change the timing of the pause after the paste to give it enough time. I just threw this together in about an hour last night, so it's not exactly well tested, but it worked for me and took about 15 seconds per sermon without errors.
Hopefully there will be a official import option in the future (with a way to browse the files), but in the meantime, this is what I did. So this is for the other 1-2 people out there who might be geeky enough to have this program in the first place, and want to try it.
P.s. If you wrote your sermons in Pages and need to bulk convert them to .docx first, here is a Automator file that does that. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mn7wlkk0bjmli97/AAC6WjdgdLvmDNdx_mYXSLKua?dl=0
