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Default Need a scratch pad for sentence composition inside Word.

The problem with OneNote is that it is an application running outside of Word
and not in the Word window. (Please correct me if I'm mistaken.) I was able
to write a macro this morning that does what I described. However, I think
Microsoft's capable (of course) of making it into a wonderful feature, if
they wanted to.
Thank you for the suggestion!
-Su

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

Take a look at OneNote
http://www.microsoft.com/office/onen...o/default.mspx

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"Sulu" wrote in message
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Hi!
I'm a fiction writer and I use Microsoft Word primarily to compose my prose.
I find myself often going to Notepad (alongside Word) in order work on a
specific sentence's composition. It would be nice if Word had a scratch pad
feature for this purpose. I like to experiment with my words and sentence
structure before taking the finished sentence and adding it to my work in
progress. Please let me know if there is such a feature. I tried making a new
Word document to use as a scratch pad, but it doesn't work at all well. I
need the writing contained in the writing environment, which I could get if
there was a little scratchpad plugin, or something like that, inside Word,
instead of a separate application, you know, like the different dockable
panes inside Visual Studio.

Thanks for the opportunity to make a suggestion!

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