Find your way around the editor

The threeThree parts ofto the screen

Left:It helps to think of the editor as three columns.

On the left: your manuscript. YourThe book'sstructure structure,of the book, top to bottom—any front matter, then the chapters with their scenes,scenes inside, then any back matter. Click a scene to open it. TheEvery chapter and scene has a … menu onbeside anyit chapterfor orrenaming, scenemoving, renames,archiving moves,and archivesadding, or adds;and Add a chapter sits at the bottom of the list.

Centre:In the middle: the page. The scene youyou're areworking writing,on, shown asthe way it will sitlook onin print—the printed page—same trim size, margins and fonts as theyour build.finished book. The page number shownyou see is this scene's own; the book's real page numbers belongare toworked the bookout when it isit's built.

Right:On the right: notes and review. The Notes rail holds the scene's working notes andfor the book'sscene notes—and for the book as a whole. They're yours alone and are never printed. TheWhen a book has comments or suggestions on it, a review rail showsappears commentshere andtoo; suggestionsyou when there are any;can hide it when youyou'd wantlike the width.width back.

The toolbar

Each group of buttons has a small label, so they're easy to find again.

• Book — Details (title, imprint, cover), Page setup (trim, margins, fonts; ownerfor only),the book's owner) and Publish, which builds the PDF or EPUB.
• Work — switch between Write orand Outline; the view of (the whole book as a list of scenes with their summariessummaries); is Outline. Thenopen Notes,; Find (Ctrl+F;F, or Ctrl+H forto replace),; and Listen, which reads aloud from your cursor—a lovely way to catch the cursorsentences sothat youdon't canquite hear what needs work.flow.
• View — guides forthat show the margins, a dark page,page if you prefer it, and the theme.
• Paragraph — the paragraph style of the cursor'sparagraph paragraphyour cursor is in (Ctrl+Shift+E centres)centres it).
• Images — place a picture from theyour media library set into the text after the current paragraph, andor open the library itself.
• Zoom — or hold Alt +and scroll. Fit scalessizes the page to the space you have.
• Mode — Writing or Suggesting. SuggestingIn marksSuggesting, every change is marked for the author to accept or reject;reject later. If you've been invited to a book as an editoreditor, on the bookyou may befind heldyou're tokept it.in this mode; that's by design.

Saving happens by itself

There's no save button. Write saves as you type. Savedtype, and Saving…the little word at the top rightright—Saved sayor which;Saving…—tells thereyou iswhere noit's saveat. buttonYou andcan nothing to lose by closingclose the tab.tab whenever you like without losing anything. Every save also keeps a version, so an earlier draft of a scene canis bealways broughtthere back.to go back to.

Word count

The scene's count sits at the bottom of the page;page. theThe book's total is in the Library under its titletitle, and in Details.

WherePicking up where you wereleft off

The editor remembers the scene you had open,open perin each book. ComingCome back latertomorrow landsand youyou'll land right there.