Writer’s Blocks is a program made especially for Technical writing. The program displays information in a unique design that is part spreadsheet and part word processor.
By using series of sizable blocks, the program manages information in columns representing various topics. Compared to other off the market product, Writer’s Blocks is clearly the best technical writing software as the software allows for users to visually organize, capture, and evaluate far more information all under categories.
Writer’s Block is the software you will need whether you need to write a complex documents or just simply working with large amounts of related text information.
Writer’s Block cost $149 and the newest version is Writer’s Blocks 3
System Requirement
Writer’s Blocks support Microsoft Windows 98 to the latest Windows 7. The program will need a 64 MB Ram in addition to a small 40 MB of installation disk space. The program will run under any type of Pentium chipset that is faster than 500 MHz
Major Features
Power panel is one of the most powerful tools in this software. What this features does is allowing the user to edit and title and body of each blocks directly. Power panel also allow the user to magnify and do a quick preview or editing, even when the blocks is not visible in the viewing area.
The software allows the user to make a blue print out of the document. The software allows the user to customize title, font, color, and preference for blocks and columns.
Auto Arrange feature allows user to concentrate on getting ideas to the document and the actively rearranging the data in alphabetical order.
AutoNumber will help the user in renumbering the outline whenever user did editing and or rearranging of outlines every time you rearrange your block.
AutoType is a feature that helps writers to automatically complete any word that already exists anywhere in your document. Hence a user does not need to create a wordlist ahead of time.
Drag and Drop feature allow user to easily drag and drop text from and blocks or windows supported program to your document eliminating all the copy paste hassle.
Using Block marks, user can link blocks section of manuscript. When the link is clicked, the manuscript will auto scroll to the corresponding section.
Additionally, each block can be individually formatted. Each paragraph can be right and center justified and each margin could have different set of margins.
Manuscript Panel is available so that user can now complete project with notes available all in a single program. You can then split your screen and see your blocks on the left and your manuscript on the right. There is an adjustable vertical split screen bar that lets you control how big the block and manuscript panels are.
Your manuscript contains Block marks that are links to your original blocks. If you like, you can work only in the Manuscript Panel and reference your original block text by double-clicking on the Block marked text. Click anywhere on the Block mark to have your original block pop up in a small text window.
The Manuscript Panel includes many popular word processor features such as bullets, numbering, tables, borders, grid lines, page breaks, text highlighting, as well as headers and footers.
Pros
If the user are familiar with any sort of word processing program, at most a 15 minutes learning time is all that is required to be a professional with Writer’s Block.
Writer’s block allows the user to store all documents information in one place. However, this information is all maintained in its own blocks for easy editing. All the blocks are displayed on the document workspace enabling users to easily manipulate and reference.
By allowing users to arrange their ideas easier and faster, Writer’s Blocks could increase productivity of users by several magnitudes.
The software allows the users to outline their ideas faster and easier. A power panel feature helps the user by consolidating information from multiple sources and arranging it. As a result of each blocks capable of handling several pages of text, the user will not be limited during any stages of document development.
Using blocks editing on the software is easy, each blocks is similar to a form of small word processor document. When users wanted to restructure the document, all he or she needs to do is just drag and drop the blocks under the column heading. With the additional AutoNumber and AutoArrange, users could easily keep the blocks in neat rows and columns as he/she is developing the document.
The software provides the users with the big picture. A bird eye view of the date will allow user to have a new perspective on their work. Users will be able to generate research reports faster and better than ever before.
Cons
It does however, took a while to get accustomed to the program before being able to use the full potential of the program. Additionally, the first time using the program may prove to be quite a challenging task with all information is displayed all together in blocks.
The software is quite expensive compared to any other software. If price is an issue for you, you might be more interested to Google for free technical writing software.
The software has not been updated for a while, and no maintenance patch has been released recently.
Developer’s website: www.writersblocks.com/index.htm