By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Microsoft Word is an incredibly useful tool for writers—and one that I think is easy to overlook because we use it all the time.
Features that I use on a regular basis:
Highlighter. I highlight problem areas that really don’t require explanation as I write my first draft. This may be the fact that one of my characters doesn’t have a last name, or that a scene has gotten awkward or bogged down. Maybe I don’t really even know what the problem is, but I want to highlight the area to figure out later.
Find/Replace: This is very handy when I change character names in the middle of a manuscript. Continue reading