The Repair Wizard makes it easy to fix poorly formatted
manuscripts.
Is your manuscript a mess? When you print it do the page numbers
disappear? Are they wrong, off the page? Do headers/slug lines print properly?
When you add text, do your chapter headings creep? Is the format
inconsistent?
Repair Wizard can fix it. The Wizard will search for
chapter headings and reformat them, search for blank lines used to
get to the next page and delete them, put a new slug line in, new title
page, and reformat the text to comply with the Chicago Manual of Style and Writer's Market
Guidelines.
It's easy...click in a poorly
formatted paragraph...click one of the Repair Wizard tool buttons. It's
fixed.
For example, let's say you created chapter openings by repeatedly
pressing the enter key to space down a third of the page, and then used the
space bar or tab key to get about center. Then, you typed "Chapter" and
a number. Looks good so far.
Later, you added text prior to this chapter opening. Now, you find
the chapter heading is near the bottom of the page and up against the right
margin. Ugly. A mess. Why did that happen? Don't worry, the Repair Wizard will fix
it so your chapter headings will never creep again.
With your mouse, click anywhere within the word "Chapter", click on the
# Chap# Reformat button. Magic. "Chapter" followed by the
correct number appears, centered three inches down from the top margin.
Those superfluous lines, spaces and tabs are gone. If you add text to
the body of the story in the prior chapter, the chapter openings will move
automatically, magically, so they always begin on a new page, three inches down
from the top margin. There's no extra lines, no extra spaces, no creep.
If you add new chapters, all subsequent chapters will renumber
automatically, all the pages will align and renumber.
You can open your chapters with text or numbers, Roman or Italic, left
justified or centered. If you want chapter titles instead of numbers, no
problem, have it your way.
In addition, the Wizard will get rid of extra spaces between sentences
and at the end of paragraphs, and much more.
The margins are set properly, the double space requirement is
enforced, indents, font size, headers, page numbers, and all the other
formatting is done for you. Ready-Set-Done.
