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Have you contracted TABS?

2/8/2015

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Sometimes you just didn't know how to format your file so you did this:
tab
tab, tab, tab, tab
tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab
tab
Or you converted your file from Scrivener.
Or their origin is a mystery.

This file has contracted TABS

This looks bad to editors. Also, if you're self-publishing, random tabs can cause formatting migraines.
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Linking Notes in Word 2013

8/11/2014

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This feature has not replaced my reliance upon Notezilla but I likes it.
  1. Go to the Review menu.
  2. Select Link to One Note.
  3. Choose the novel  or create a One Note file. Add notes until you're blue in the face.  ( Note: name your One Note file something that is easy to associate with the note and the section of your document that it pertains to.)
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Use Notezilla. No really, use it.

7/1/2014

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I have complaints about Word. I have complaints about McDonlad's... I can be a complainer. But, I've never had a complaint about Notezilla.

While I mainly use the software for writing, I also use it to make to do lists, keep track of spending, and grocery lists.
To explain why this is a writer's must have program, lets use some situational examples. Let's say your writing a novel and your main character is a proctologist. Your knowledge of proctology extends as far as a middle school prank where  you left a message for your teacher to call James Zass right away and gave the number to proctologist you picked out of a phone book.  Time to do some hard research, and by hard I mean, you fired up G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶  your favorite search engine and typed in "What does a proctologist do?"


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Because you're a writer of the 21st century you copy and past the good stuff into notepad or some such. But man, all that switching of screens is making your butt itch. Notezilla can stay on top.

You can also link the note to specific sites and documents make research and noting your masterpiece a breeze.  Download a trial here.

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