Scrivener 3 is on the way…

Posted by tightbeam
Dec 4, 2017 at 03:58 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
bobmclain wrote:

>>Word handles large documents, including ones with all the complexities
>>you list, just fine.

>Well, it depends what you mean by “handling.” It didn’t meet my
>definition. Partly it was the EndNote add-on that slowed things down,
>but even the time it takes to save a large file, crashes etc. just made
>it unusuable for my use case.

This is very strange, and makes me wonder what version of Word you’re using and on what computer. I’m not familiar with the EndNote add-on - but many of the books I publish don’t require footnotes or endnotes, and those that do rarely exceed a couple hundred of them (which Word accommodates quite nicely, with no crashes or slow loading/saving). The placement of files from Word to Adobe InDesign is pretty flawless, with notes appearing as they should, Word styles translated to InDesign styles, etc.

I think most authors don’t want to deal with “niche” third-party software. Just as authors using typewriters produced some pretty impressive books, authors using Word have done the same.