The writing tab

The writing tab on the ribbon bar is split into five groups:

Novel writing

This group of commands enables you to manage your novel. It provides access to the wizards used to add chapters, characters and so on. In addition it enables you to show a dialog displaying your overall progress to date.

	Novel details	Shows the novel details page where you can change the title, estimated word count, and synopsis of your novel. The novel details page also allows you to compare your progress to your goals and to update your personal details which can be added to your cover letter, title page, and your synopsis.
	Add chapter	Shows the add chapter wizard which allows you to add a new chapter to your novel.
	Add diagram	Shows the add diagram wizard which allows you to add a new diagrams, family tree or corkboard to your novel.
	Add event	Shows the add event wizard which allows you to add a new event to your novel.
	Add character	Shows the add character wizard which allows you to add a new character to your novel.
	Add place	Shows the add place wizard which allows you add a new place to your novel.
	Add thing	Shows the add thing wizard which allows you to add a new a new 'thing' to your novel.
	Progress	Shows the progress dialog which allows you to compare your progress to date with your original writing goals. It also displays the readability and reading age of all of your chapters so that you can make sure your writing is at the correct level. This is especially useful when writing for children.

Editing

This group of commands is only enabled when you are currently editing a chapter or section. It provides basic word processing facilities which you will be familiar with from any number of other applications including cut, copy and paste. In addition it enables you to add images to your chapter text and page breaks.

	Undo	Undoes the last change you made to your text.
	Redo	Redoes the last change you undid with the undo button.
	Paste	Pastes from the clipboard into your document.
	Cut	Cuts the current selection from your document to the clipboard.
	Copy	Copies the current selection to the clipboard.
	Add image	Inserts an image into your document
	Page break	Inserts a page break into your document

Font

This group of commands is only enabled when you are currently editing a chapter or section. It provides basic character formatting commands such as the ability to change the size, font, colour of what you're typing.

	Font	Changes the font face of the selection to the selected font.
	Font size	Changes the font size of the selection.
	Bold	Make the selected text bold.
	Italic	Italicize the selected text.
	Underline	Underline the selected text.
	Strike through	Draw a line through the middle of the selected text.
	Subscript	Create small letters below the script baseline.
	Superscript	Create small letters above the line of text.
	Grow font	Increases the font size.
	Shrink font	Decreases the font size.
	Font	Shows the font dialog which allows you to change the font of the selected text.
	Font colour	Changes the foreground colour of the selection.
	Text highlight colour	Makes the text look like it was marked with a highlighter pen.

Paragraph

This group of commands is only enabled when you are currently editing a chapter or section. It provides paragraph formatting commands such as the ability to set the line spacing and alignment of everything you are typing in the current paragraph.

	Align text left	Aligns the text in the selection or current paragraph to the left of the page.
	Centre	Aligns the text in the selection or current paragraph to the centre of the page.
	Align text right	Aligns the text in the section or current paragraph to the right of the page.
	Justify	Aligns text to both left and right margins, adding extra space between words as necessary. This creates a clean look along both the left and right sides of the page.
	Show / hide paragraph marks	Shows or hides the paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols.
	Paragraph	Shows the paragraph formatting dialog.
	Numbering	Start a numbered list.
	Bullets	Start a bulleted list.
	Multilevel list	Start a multilevel list.
	Decrease indent	Decrease the indent level of the paragraph.
	Increase indent	Increase the indent level of the paragraph.

Searching and spelling

This group of commands is only enabled when you are currently editing a chapter or section. This group of commands allows you to search / replace, spell-check and check the readability of the text in the current chapter or section.

	Find	Allows you to search for some text within the currently open chapter or section.
	Replace	Allows you to replace text within the currently open chapter or section.
	Spell check	Performs spell checking on the currently open chapter or section. You can add words MyNovel does not recognize to the custom dictionary. This is in addition to the spell checking done as you type. To change the spell checking language, open the preferences dialog.
	Readability	Evaluates the readability and reading age of the currently open chapter or section. The results are displayed in the readability dialog.