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Using Microsoft Word as a full-featured outliner software? It's real!
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Posted by shazad
Mar 15, 2010 at 09:55 AM
Edwin when’s beta going to start? I’ve been monitoring Writing Outliner homepage for last 2 hours.
Thanks, Shazad
Posted by Edwin Yip
Mar 16, 2010 at 01:31 AM
Hi Shazad,
Thank you for asking, as you might have know, its started already :)
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Edwin Yip
Turn MS Word into a full-featured outliner software
http://WritingOutliner.com
shazad wrote:
>Edwin when’s beta going to start? I’ve been monitoring Writing Outliner homepage for
>last 2 hours.
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>Thanks, Shazad
>
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Posted by Taxi
Mar 17, 2010 at 09:22 AM
My initial impression was quite favourable, in spite of some minor difficulties with installation on a standard user account (Vista).
However, your description states that;
?1. Each node of the left outline pane is linked to a single Word document, you select a node and the linked word document is loaded and ready for editing.?
This suggested to me that Writing Outliner Word addin would operate in a similar fashion to ‘Chapter by Chapter’, or the MSWord Master Document feature, in which each sub-document is linked to a separate MSWord document file somewhere on the hard disc.
But as far as I can tell, the ?linked Word documents? only exists inside the WOPRJ project file and can only be accessed by opening the appropriate project file.
Is this correct? If so, have you any plans to change this arrangement going forward?
Posted by Edwin Yip
Mar 18, 2010 at 03:31 AM
Hi Taxi,
In my original post, by “linking” I mean the linkage between the outline and the corresponding Word document that’s stored in a WOPRJ project file, sorry for the confusion.
Regarding the file format, I’ll be adding a backup and versioning feature that will also store the documents it their original format (.doc, etc) into a zip file aside from the WOPROJ project file, upon closing a modified project. This way, your will always have copy of your Writing Outliner project in a none-proprietary format. Hope this helps.
You can check the discussion about this backup and versioning feature here:
http://writingoutliner.com/forum/topic/what-kind-of-data-backup-feature-do-you-want
Posted by Edwin Yip
Mar 18, 2010 at 03:34 AM
BTW, a Writing Outliner Word Add-in project file itself is a SQLITE database which is a commonly used data format and can be opened by a wide variety of other software tools including many open source ones, because SQLITE database is the world’s number one open source desktop database system!