![]() ![]() After that, I’ll either start it, or I’ll go into a scene planner. I start with a one page outline of where I want to go, then I move to my planning chart, where I sketch out the main Acts of the story. I hadn’t realised how many until I started looking! I’m not describing writer software here, except for Scrivener, because that’s a different thing.Ĭlick on the titles to be taken to the creator’s page.Īnd this is how I work, just so you know. So I set out to find a new word processor. They’re all worth looking at, but I wanted something I could use offline as well as on. ![]() I decided not to review the online offerings like Zoho, Microsoft Word Online or Google Docs. I don’t need mail merge, cloud access or collaborative features. I’d like a WP that I could customise a bit. I wanted these: Tabbed interface like you have on a browser, so I can have every document tabbed across the top, spelling checker, capitalisation – it capitalises the first letter in every sentence. I needed the following features: Live word count, annotations/track changes, Styles, fonts, templates, autotext, spellcheck and total compatibility with Microsoft Office. ![]() Here’s what I looked at, what they offer and what I went with. I don’t know how much I’m being spied on with this new version of Office, and while I’m probably far too paranoid, I don’t like that feeling. It’s not easy to use it for protracted lengths of time offline. Every time you open Word, it checks with the internet, every time. I don’t need elaborate collaborations methods. It’s so closely bound up with the cloud, I don’t like it. So when they moved to a rental model, I decided to change. It was bloated, the software isn’t reliable and it doesn’t really fill me with confidence any more. Word 2013 and after were cumbersome and far too complicated for my needs. What I needed was something else-a pretty complex word processor, with a spreadsheet program and something to do my presentations with. They were playing to the enterprise, not to me. When 2013 came out, I went with it when I got my Microsoft Surface, but I wasn’t as enamoured. It had the Ribbon, but I could alter it to my own specifications. Looking for a new Word Processor and why I changed ![]()
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