![]() I used to know exactly where everything was, or at least could guess fairly quickly. For me, at least, the new ribbon bar that Microsoft introduced with Word 2007 has made the software a lot more time-consuming and annoying to use. You end up using multiple Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, notes on bits of paper, plus numerous other formats for recording everything you need. It isn’t very good at organising lots of different kinds of information for a writing project. Unless you know your way around it quite well, you can easily waste a lot of time just getting it to format your text the way you want it. It’s a well-established, easily available package, which does more than is generally needed for most forms of creative writing. I guess most of us use Microsoft Word for our writing. The website, for anyone interested in finding out more, is: I haven’t attempted to evaluate it, so can’t comment on how similar it is to the Mac version. There’s mention on their website of a Microsoft Windows version, but it seems to be a beta version, rather than a “real” one. Scrivener is primarily a Mac application. ![]() You can do a lot more with it than I’ve tried. Scrivener has far more features than I have used, so this will only be a very brief skim over the ones I know. Apologies for the wait, but at least I’ve now had a long time to use the software.įirstly, a caveat. ![]() I began evaluating Scrivener a few months ago, and intended to post a review of it much sooner than this. ![]()
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