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Why Writing Outliner (Book writing software) is developed as a Word addin?
Posted in: Word by Edwin on September 21, 2009
What is a Word™ addin?
Microsoft knows although Word™ is a very powerful word processor it cannot cover all requirements of all users, for example, writers need functionalities to allow them to manage their long writings or a series of documents, to easily manage and view their research materials, to take notes, to brainstorm, to outline their ideas, and so on.
So Microsoft provides a programming interface for 3rd party software vendors to add functionalities to Microsoft Word™ by developing the so called Word addins (some people call them addons). In other words, Word add-ins are software modules developed to work with and enhance Microsoft Word™ to accomplish some particular tasks.
Why Writing Outliner is developed as a Word addin?
Good question!
Microsoft Word™ is the leading software product in the Word processing industry, and most publishers accepts only book drafts in Word document format. If Writing Outliner is developed as a standalone writing software like other novel or story writing software, the writers will have to export their drafts and load in Microsoft Word™ to do some further formatting works, what a pain!
With Writing Outliner being developed as a Word add-in authors get all their writing software tools in one place, the whole writing process from researching, outlining, note taking, transcribing, editing, to final formating, is streamlined!
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Writing Outliner is under development curently, you can sign up as a beta tester here.