You are right. This works for me now. Maybe I was doing something wrong before.

I like the flexibility of this program actually.

Christian informed me that by turning off your orphan control, you won’t have your line duplicated on the next page.

I agree, because I’ve already done it, that you can use Word to create scenes lists, character studies, and of course to write your actual manuscript, but it’s just confusing to me to have ten Word documents open at once and switch back and forth between them.

I haven’t had the problem you describe with Word, but I do see the last line on one page appear to be duplicated as the top line of the next, occasionally.

It’s also odd that the complete list of scenes is only available from the Tools menu.

I have used two other novel writing tools. One was called New Novelist, which I used for a day or two. And another was called Novel Writer Professional, which I used for less than an hour before getting frustrated by the bugs in it. With both of them I was very worried about losing all my work and frustrated at not being able to scroll through it all in one file.

yWriter is far better than those two and I’m enjoying playing with it but really you can do everything you need to do in Word.

Word is really annoying me these days. Whenever I press the Page Up button my text becomes garbled. I have sometimes deleted stuff by accident because it looks like it isn’t there. So I’ve started using another word processor called Ability Write. It is fully compatible with Word and very cheap.