yWriter Comprehensive Help File

This document was recovered from the lost yWriter google sites page, and is still a work in progress

MISCELLANEOUS How do I ?

?add a dictionary? Which one? Does this slow your computer down?

Open the Scene editor window by double clicking Scene>View/Edit. Click Spelling>Install dictionary. TIP If you right click within the contents page you have access to an online Dictionary and Thesaurus.

? add a word to the custom dictionary?

You need to install the dictionary first!
Highlight the word and right click for the menu to add words to the custom dictionary,

? add typewriter sounds ? for fun?

Open the scene editor window. Click Settings>Typewriter sounds.

? find the yWriter group and the yWriter archive?

yWriter group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/yWriter

? find where to place my overview of the whole project (Novel)?

Go to Project>Project settings. When you click on this you will see a box headed 'Description?. This could just have easily been called 'Overview.?
Tip You can write this overview as though you were writing the blurb for the back cover of your novel or a 'pitch? for a movie script..