Hi all,

A little bit off-topic but maybe you could help me in my search. Do you know any MS Word document creation tools? Or maybe content creation tool with export to word capabilities. I need the following:

- Being able to create a new document from chapters/snippets stored in some place.
- Ability to update that chapters for reuse.
- Searh chapters/snippets capabilities by text or tags
- Substitution fields for project name, company name, ....

I'm doing documents constantly and I'd like to streamline the process, something like:

1 - Create new project/document
2 - Intro some basic information: customer name, project name, document name,. ... for replacing along document.
3 - Create structure, table of contents of the document
4 - Start searching Snippets (some short, some very long, complete chapters) and insert wherever I need.
5 - Make substitution of step 1 information
6 - Complete document with ad-hoc text
7 - Export to MS Word.

A very nice feature will be the capability to update that reusable information (company profile, standard chapters, ...) and have it available for colleagues.

Kind regards.

Sounds like Ulysses might be good for you?

https://ulyssesapp.com/

@pedbob, you didn't mention what OS you were working with. If it's Windows, you might consider ConnectedText. Or even OneNote. I wouldn't limit the export options to MS Word .docx files because Word can work very well by opening .html files and then saving them as .docx. So, that's why I mention ConnectedText -- because it can do every task on your list, export section(s) to .html, which plays well with Word.

If you can get a reasonably clean HTML output from any of your tools, you can import that into Word and save the result as a Word file.

As an independent IT and management consultant, I often have to come up with alternative cost-effective approaches to meeting client needs. The best PC client software for document construction that I have ever come across is Pathagoras: https://www.pathagoras.com/

It takes some study before the power of the software becomes apparent.
I found it whilst doing some research for a client, where I was to set up a project development documentation team, and I found and recommended Pathagoras as the main tool for the project (using Microsoft SharePoint as the Library). There was nothing else like quite like Pathagoras - or as good at what it did/does.

I haven't needed to use Pathagoras for myself, but I still subscribe to their newsletter, and a while back they released a cloud-based version also (which I have not trialled). if you wanted to trial Pathagoras - or even have an extended trial period - then you will find the author of the software, Roy Lasris, very helpful.

Well worth a suck-it-and-see.

Slartibartfarst wrote:

The best PC client software for document construction that I have ever come across is Pathagoras: https://www.pathagoras.com/

Thanks for the heads up; this looks quite remarkable.