Mac outliners, one-pane, modeless and general-purpose like text editors?

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jul 3, 2009 at 06:54 PM

Does the outliner in the Mac version of MS Word have any significant capabilities that the Windows version lacks?

In some ways, Word’s outliner is more powerful than any dedicated Windows outliner. I wouldn’t try writing a book on Word start to finish because of only a single deficit: the inability to select and drag multiple headings in outline view. I wonder if the Mac version has this capability. (I’d guess the answer is ‘no.’)

Cassius wrote:
>2 cents: My son has just written a 300(?) page nonfiction book to be published in
>September and the publisher has already asked him to write one or two more. He tells me
>for fiction or nonfiction he only uses MS Word on a Mac. He feels that using additional
>software for initial or intermediate steps just adds unnecessary complications and
>wastes time. (For video game scripts he used something else.)