Franz Grieser
12/1/2017 2:52 pm
Graham Rhind wrote:
I looked at it 10 years ago, or so. It was not very stable in Word 2007, neither was Word then.
In the meantime, Word got a decent outliner features, so the plugin is no longer needed.
Right. Either through a menu command or via a shortcut key.
No, it hasn't. Scrivener is a writer's tool, Word is a tool for office workers. So, Scrivener has no mail-merge feature, for example.
You can, of course, format text, spellcheck, print and export to a number of file formats. However, Scrivener for Word 1.x lacks the paragraph styles Word has - Scrivener 3 will have them. You can insert images and tables (though tables are less flexible in Scrivener).
All in all, Scrivener for Windows 1 is for structuring, for writing and exporting your text eg. to Word.
Well, that might be the dealbreaker. Lit&Latte offers a fully functional 30-day trial. I'd import one of your Word files and look how well Scrivener does.
Is anybody familiar both with Scrivener (Windows version) and Writing
Outliner (a Word plugin)? If so, does anybody know how well Scrivener
might replace Writing Outliner?
I looked at it 10 years ago, or so. It was not very stable in Word 2007, neither was Word then.
In the meantime, Word got a decent outliner features, so the plugin is no longer needed.
A very quick look at Scrivener suggests I can edit chunks of documents
then bring them together into a single document for publication.
Right. Either through a menu command or via a shortcut key.
My concern is whether the editor within Scrivener has Word-like strength
and features.
No, it hasn't. Scrivener is a writer's tool, Word is a tool for office workers. So, Scrivener has no mail-merge feature, for example.
You can, of course, format text, spellcheck, print and export to a number of file formats. However, Scrivener for Word 1.x lacks the paragraph styles Word has - Scrivener 3 will have them. You can insert images and tables (though tables are less flexible in Scrivener).
All in all, Scrivener for Windows 1 is for structuring, for writing and exporting your text eg. to Word.
As the native format appears to be RTF, I'm unsure about
that. I can cut and paste from Word to Scrivener, but I do notice that
the layout does get altered. The original Word documents are, of
necessity, somewhat complex.
Well, that might be the dealbreaker. Lit&Latte offers a fully functional 30-day trial. I'd import one of your Word files and look how well Scrivener does.