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The first page of a chapter is where a book shows a little ceremony: the chapter starts partway down the page, the title sits just so, and the first paragraph often opens with a large capital letter and a few words in small capitals. This page covers those tou...

Along the top of a printed book's pages runs a header—usually the author's name on the left-hand page and the title on the right—and at the foot, the page number. This page covers how they look and where the numbering starts. It's all in the Headers and footer...

You can bring other people into a book—an editor to go over the draft, a co-author to write alongside you, or beta readers to read and leave notes. This page shows how to invite them, and how to change or end their access later. Invite someone Open the book a...

Everyone on a book has a role, and the role decides what they can do there. This page sets them side by side, so you can choose the right one when you invite someone. The four roles Owner That's you, for the books you make. You can do everything: write, publis...

When an editor goes over your book, their changes arrive as suggestions—shown in the text, but not part of it until you say so—and their notes arrive as comments. This page is about working through them: accepting, rejecting, replying and tidying up. Suggestio...

The editor has three ways of looking at your book, and you can flip between them at any time from the Write · Outline · Preview switch in the toolbar. This page explains what each is for. Screenshot: the toolbar's Work group, with the Write · Outline · Previe...

Write keeps formatting simple on purpose: you mark what the words mean—emphasis, a link, a line in another hand—and the page setup decides how it looks. This page covers the handful of things you'll use. The selection bar Select a few words and a small bar app...

This page is about the shape of your book: adding chapters and scenes, moving them around, grouping chapters into parts, and putting aside the ones you're not sure about. All of it happens in the manuscript list down the left side of the editor. Screenshot: t...

This page shows you how to find a word or phrase—in the scene you're in, the chapter, or the whole book—and how to change it everywhere at once when a name or a spelling changes. Open the find bar Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac). A small bar floats over the top ...

This page is about notes: the reminders you leave on a scene or chapter, and the longer documents—research, a to-do list, a scrap of worldbuilding—you keep beside the book. None of it ever prints. Open your notes Click Notes at the top of the editor. A panel o...

This page is about the Writing and Suggesting switch at the top of the editor. In Writing, what you type goes straight into the book. In Suggesting, every change you make is marked as a suggestion instead, to be accepted or rejected later—handy when you're rev...

This page covers the ways you can make the editor comfortable to sit with for a long session: light or dark, the color of the room, a dark page to write on, and whether you see your words as the printed page or as one long column. None of this changes your boo...

This page is about Listen, which reads your book aloud a sentence at a time while you follow along. Hearing your words is one of the best ways to catch a clunky rhythm, a repeated word or a missing one—and as you listen, you can mark each spot that needs work ...

This page is about History: the earlier versions of each scene that Write keeps for you, how to look at one and see what's changed since, how to put a scene back the way it was, and how to mark a milestone for the whole book. You don't have to do anything to m...

This page is for giving a picture whole pages in the middle of a scene: a full-page illustration, or one wide picture across two facing pages. The words around it stay where they are. In print the text fills the page it's on, the picture comes next, and the te...

An omnibus is one book made of several of yours: a whole series in one volume, a box set of books one to three, or any mix you like. This page shows you how to make one and what it does with your books. The important thing to know first: an omnibus reads its b...