"A must-have for all serious writers who use MS Word!" -- Andrej E. Skubic, novelist and playwright
Love it or hate it, for better or worse, Microsoft Word (and the DOC format) is pretty much standard when it comes to writing on a PC. Ubiquitous, even.
That's exactly why we're so excited about Writing Outliner for MS Word. It's an add-in that takes Microsoft's industry standard word-processing platform and supercharges it with a host of tools designed specifically for large-scale writing projects.
In a nutshell, Writing Outliner allows you to treat individual sections of a large project as smaller separate documents. This project-based method of writing is ideal for any complex document. For example, novels, research papers, technical white-papers, a series of columns, a short-story collection, or even a personal diary!
The hierarchical outliner is probably the most important and powerful aspect of Writing Outliner. It faciliatates better, more intuitive organization of notes and thoughts, offers a big-picture overview, and allows for much easier navigation of long texts.
But that's only the beginning! Writing Outliner also features lightning-fast full-text search, tabbed document editing, Outlook-style document status flags and icons, custom document tagging, a comprehensive document synopsis and notes system, and much, much more. Make sure to click over to the Writing Outliner website for a thorough overview!
Writing Outliner also includes a fantastic feature called the Corkboard View! The Corkboard is a fantastic tool for plotting a novel, or providing a visial overview of the entirety or parts of your project. Want to see the Corkboard in action? Take a look at the brief video demo.
What's new in v1.9 since v1.5:
- - Supports all the new versions of Word including Word 365, 2019, 2016, 2013, 32-bit and 64-bit, for Win 10 or older versions.
- - Supports 4 color index cards - pink, yellow, blue and green.
- - Significant corkboard usability improvements.
- - Supports high resolution screens including 4K monitors.
- - And a bunch of other improvements.
You can check the new screenshots and a video here: http://writingoutliner.com/writing-software/blog/
Features
The Fine Print
Testimonials
- Transform Word into a much more powerful utility optimized for large scale, complex writing projects.
- Manage and write sections of your long writing projects as though they were discrete documents.
- View a document as a Multi-Column Outline with meta data displayed, including titles, synopsis, notes, status icon, label icon, tags, word count, target word count, and so on.
- Utilize ultra-fast text search.
- Utilize tabbed-editing for much faster navigation between documents.
- Organize your documents with customizable Document Status Icons and Document Label Icons.
- Attach customizable text tags to draft documents.
- Write synopses and notes for each draft document.
- Access a backup and restore feature allows you to manually or automatically (upon closing a project) backup your whole writing project. Revert to any of the old revisions at a future time!
- Navigate your files from within Writing Outliner with a full-featured Windows Explorer component.
- Merge separate draft documents into a single long document for output.
- Get a visual overview of your project with the new Corkboard feature.
- You can download and install a free trial of this software before purchasing
- Download available for: Windows 7/8/10/11 with Office 365/3019/2016/2013/2010/2007 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Buy with BitsDuJour's promotional coupon code and get all this at a discounted price!
- After you purchase Writing Outliner for MS Word it may be used indefinitely.
- Writing Outliner for MS Word is licensed per user, so if more people are going to use Writing Outliner for MS Word you will need to purchase additional copies.
- Each license allows installation on 2 computers, but Writing Outliner for MS Word may not be used at exactly the same time on each of them.
- Transfer of a license to another owned computer is allowed.
- Online license activation is required with a hardware footprint, and 2 installations per footprint. what's this?
- This promotion can be used to upgrade or extend an existing license.
- You can install/register the software at any time.
- License can be used for Commercial and Personal use.
- Upgrades to future versions of the software will be free for 12 months. For versions after that, upgrades will require additional payment, which will be discounted by 50%.
- Support is provided for the lifetime of the product.
- 1 month return policy.
- Prices do not necessarily include taxes, which will vary by country.
- Review what others have to say...
- “It is an indispensable writing tool for Word!Writers can over-come so-called "writer's block" by carefully outlining and researching their writing projects. That's why I think Writing Outliner is a dream come true for writers. It enables us to easily create and organize material in ways that enhance writing quality and speed the writing process. I use Writing Outliner every day and think it is an indispensable writing tool for Word.”- Donald L. Hughes, CEO Theatron Media Group., Inc.
- “A must-have for all serious writers who use MS Word!Of the several programs for writers that I have tried - immediately rejecting some of them, fiddling around for some time with others - Writing Outliner is the first I am definitely going to use all the time. It provides so much of what a writer who knows what (s)he is doing needs: a) The flexibility of organization of longer text, b) Focusing on fragments (with summaries, tags, notes), c) Their overview, rearrangement and revising, all in one place.While plotting capabilities may lack some of the (sometimes confusing) complexity that other programs provide, with Edwin flexibly responding to users' wishes, the functionalities are continually expanding! A must for all serious writers who use Word.”- Andrej E. Skubic, novelist and playwright
- “It allows for much better organization of thoughts, resources.I've been using Writing Outliner for a few days now. First, for a beta product, it's remarkably bug-free. Second, I get it, I really get it! It's a nice tool, it allows for much better organization of thoughts, resources, and subdocuments than Word does.... And third, it works with EndNote, which is very important to me.”- Mitchell L. Silverman, J.D., M.S., legal reference and emerging technologies librarian.
- “Gets the documents all together and easy to organize and workThank you very much for creating this product. My wife wants me to put her writings into a book and I'm really clueless about Word. Your Outliner at least gets the documents all together and easy to organize and work with. Without it, I could be spending ages trying to get master documents or word outliner or document map working right. Now, instead, I can spend ages figuring out templates, building blocks and a zillion other things! ;-)”- Maertese - a member of Writing Outliner forum
