If you're writing a long (book-length) document in Microsoft Word, you
really need to get the
Author Tools Template from the Editorium. It's a beautiful add-in set of MS Word macros. Make sure to enable macros in Word for it to run.
If you want an alternative to Word, here are some possibilities:
Commercial Software- Scrivener (Mac only): everybody who uses it loves it.
- PageFour (Windows): I use it and think it's great.
Freeware- Notepad++: plain-text freeware, a huge improvement over regular Notepad.
- JDarkRoom: plain-text freeware makes your screen black -- a retro computer look with no distractions.
There are other options out there, but these are the ones I'm most familiar with.
Here is an article comparing Scrivener with several other Mac-based alternatives to Word.
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