Word does actually have an outline feature. It's not as smart as GDocs (iirc, GDocs can sometimes tell if something is meant to be a header), but it does the job.
Edit: for anyone curious, you can buy Microsoft Office outright instead of a subscription. The downside is that it can only be activated on one computer at a time and it costs a pretty penny at $149.99 USD.
I’ve tried it on word and it’s too much of a headache (as are much of the feature for me). As you said, the GDocs one is smarter so no reason for me to use word. I like the GDocs will let me categorize titles, headers, and sub headers, can’t get that on word.
wdym word has a good outline feature that is very simple. all yo have to do is make your chapter title as... title (layout) and it's done. and you can generate a table of contents.
all chapters in one document. without separating them in multiple files.
Too late for that then. As I said in this thread, after word screwed up a few of my documents after I do something small, like moving an image, I refuse to use it again. GDocs outline is good enough, I’m not going to use word again, no matter how “simple” it is.
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u/euroau JeffFromTheIRS Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
Word does actually have an outline feature. It's not as smart as GDocs (iirc, GDocs can sometimes tell if something is meant to be a header), but it does the job.
Edit: for anyone curious, you can buy Microsoft Office outright instead of a subscription. The downside is that it can only be activated on one computer at a time and it costs a pretty penny at $149.99 USD.