Need a scratch pad for sentence composition inside Word.

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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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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you tried OneNote?

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Words into Type
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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!

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
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 this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...b0ed55&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See response to your duplicate post in microsoft.public.word.pagelayout.
Please do not post the same question separately to multiple newsgroups.

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