Re: Writing "form"

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4667

Posted by 100341.2151
2005-12-06 14:21:55

Thanks for letting us know about this, Peter. As Steve says, it’s an ingeneous way of getting more out of Word, by using its tables, outline view and document map features together in this way.

Just a few random thoughts…

What’s the backstory on this? As you commnet at the outset:

> For long time I’ve had a fairly good idea of the overall structure, with chapters, main sections, sub section, and topics within each of these.

This suggests that you may have found information management and outlining tools useful for the earlier stages, but that for the actual drafting stage you needed to find a new way of organizing, presenting and working with your material. Later on, though, you seem to be suggesting that you consider your new way of working within Word might be a comprehensive replacement for the above tools.

On the information management side, something similar could be done using an external program like Zoot, but I see the advantages of having your data ready to hand in Word itself. Let us know how it works out in practice over the long haul.

One thought immediately springs to mind: would a program like NotaBene provide a better fit to this new way of working? (I don’t know the answer to this :-).)

I’d also be interested in taking a look at your template - and having others mull this approach over.

Derek

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