yWriter Comprehensive Help File

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

PRINTING. How do I ?

? make my manuscript 'submission ready?

You best approach is probably to use the Project/Export Project to Docx option, do final formatting using a word processor (MS Word, OpenOffice.org, WordPerfect, or whatever suits you).
TIP With the new yWriter export/import chapter feature, you can export a chapter, [how?] do your spelling and grammar check, then re-importing the content [how?] before starting on the next chapter. That way all changes are applied to yWriter's version semi-automatically. Alternately, you can export to HTML and print from your browser. Or, you can export to TXT and print that, but your formatting options are limited and you lose any line spacing, bold, italics, etc. that you had set in yWriter

? print out my work?

Click 'Project>Print project. A dialogue box comes up. You have some choices: By using the First file/Last file you can print chapters (for example 1, 2, 3) but you cannot print chapters 1 and 3 only without 2 unless you consecutively print 1 and then 3.
You can easily print All chapters by clicking the All tag.
You can print all chapters with a specific tag.
You can print only those scenes with a specific viewpoint character by selecting that character.
Note: When you click OK, you will be asked ?Do you want to print out scene summaries?? You can answer yes or no. If you say yes you get all the extra info. If you say no you just get chapter headings and scene separators (as per a printed book)
On completion a page will appear which you can print by right clicking and saying 'Print?. Alternatively you can review what you have written. When you click 'Print Selected Chapter(s)' or 'Print Project' you get a dialog box Please review,.

? print Project Notes?

Select the Project Notes tab on the Main Screen above the scene list. Right click in the list of notes. There are two options, Print selected note(s) and Print all notes. [You can select the notes for the first one by standard Windows means (click, ctrl-click, shift-click).] Please review

?print out scene cards?

For the full story on scene cards, go to http://sites.google.com/site/yWritersj/reports/print-scene-cards-1

? print by tag?

Go to: Items>Reports>Print Items per tag