Jan 07 2012
How to Make Chapters for a Novel Manuscript in Microsoft Word 2010 (Windows/PC or Mac)
Instead of having a separate Word document for each of your chapters, I would highly recommend instead writing your manuscript as a single Word document with chapter breaks. Otherwise, changing even the smallest details will be a nightmare. (For example, if you want to change a character’s name, you’d probably have to Find-Replace every chapter). That’s a huge waste of time, particularly since most novel manuscripts undergo hundreds of changes. If your chapters are in a single document, you just have to Ctrl+F once.
Fortunately, Word makes it extremely easy to break your novel manuscript into easily navigable chapters. Once you’ve gotten the hang of how to add chapters in Word, this should take fewer than 10 seconds a chapter.
