[Sulu]

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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[Mary Sauer]

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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[Sulu]

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
...
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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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You could create a UserForm with a multiline text box and a command button
that when you were finished with composing the sentence would insert it into
the document at the location of the cursor. You could have a key
combination or a button on the toolbar call the userform to facilitate its
use.

While the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

Does not address exactly what you want to do, it should show you how to get
started. Post back if you need more specific assistance.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

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"Sulu" wrote in message
...
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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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's hard for me to understand how any application aside from Word would be
needed or desirable. The whole idea of a word processor is to allow one
flexibility in adding, deleting, rearranging, etc., not just to create
perfect, finished compositions.

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Words into Type
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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
You could create a UserForm with a multiline text box and a command button
that when you were finished with composing the sentence would insert it
into
the document at the location of the cursor. You could have a key
combination or a button on the toolbar call the userform to facilitate its
use.

While the article "How to create a Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

Does not address exactly what you want to do, it should show you how to
get
started. Post back if you need more specific assistance.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Sulu" wrote in message
...
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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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
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then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.


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