Does that also apply to comments on WW?

Len, perish the thought! I might disagree, or be annoyed with myself for having got it wrong if I agreed, but I'd never be the outright swearing-at-the-screen furious that I am with a programme.

Emma

Thanks, Smudger! I'm beginning to think that Word is too clever for its own good!
Sue

To add my two cents... (Euro zone, so not tuppence)

Smudger's idea of styles is by far the best approach.

If you get into the habit of writing with the style menu open (Format - Styles and Formatting), Word becomes a pretty useful tool for managing / synopsising your novel as well as automatically numbering your chapters. You simply select the most appropriate style for what you are writing.

For example, I have uploaded a template to here http://www.gdcsoft.com/WW/NovelTemplate.zip. It has styles setup for act headings, chapter headings, characters, synopsis and manuscript. If you use styles as shown, then move the mouse over the table of contents and press F9, it will give you a pretty good map of your novel and allows you to compare the synopsis of what you actually wrote to what you had planned to write.

Comments welcome,

Gaius

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Oops... for the technophobes amongst you who don't know how to unzip, I have also uploaded the .doc in unzipped format here.