Picture this: You’ve been given a writing assignment. You go home, fire up Word, and stare at the blinking cursor waiting for input.
You somehow crank up a working title for your paper and think: “Hey, I should format this at 24pt.”
“Let’s make this Arial.”
And sure enough, you’ll find yourself lost in toying around with Microsoft’s wonderful Word. Here are the tools I use, which complete each other to form a pretty solid workflow.





