Word Vertigo

As arcane as it sounds, we’ve resorted to only using Word for the final editing stages of our book. Both Steve and I experience what I call Word Vertigo when attempting to write and edit the documents. What we do is break each section of a chapter into simple text files, write them, then assemble the files into Word when we send them to the Editor. At first, for a struggling few weeks, I thought it was just me, like we were missing some magnificent feature in Word that would coalesce all the editing features into something that made sense. I think the main problem is that I’m so used to working in HTML, with simple formating, that Word constantly gets in my way. And then when you use track changes, with the lines, comment boxes, colors, inserted, deleted, you end up with Word Vertigo.