Is there a Literary Manuscript template For WORD? Or Publisher?

[Leslie Rhea]

Is there a template, or modifications that can be applied to any WORD
document, or existing template, to produce a format/template for a Literary
Manuscript?

In particular, I seek the double/or/triple spacing format, with a narrow
right hand column in which to make editorial comments.

Would there be any such template in Publisher, that I have not found, yet?

Your help would be very appreciated!

Leslie Cunningham
(e-mail address removed)

PS - I had thought I could use COLUMNS and make 2 unequal width columns, to
achieve the above, but today I was unable to make UNequal columns.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You could use a two column borderless table for your 'columns'. The line
spacing is simply a matter of adjusting the paragraph style. Or you could
use a single column with a wide margin and put borderless text boxes in the
margin.
Or you could use Word's comments and balloons in the margin.

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[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

And Publisher will allow you to make your columns any width that you want.

I think the basic problem is that people seem to be lost when they can't
find a template that meets their needs exactly. Creativity seems to be a
thing of the past. <sigh>

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For a manuscript template, see
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordsintotype/Template.htm. You can change the
margins to any size you want if you're wanting to make notes by hand. If you
want to mark up the document electronically, use Word's built-in Comment
feature, and the comments will be placed in "balloons" in the margin (in
Word 2002 and 2003). Track Changes also uses balloons for markup. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html