RoughDraft 3.0

RoughDraft is a freeware word processor for Windows. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, plays and screenplays.
Its designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use.
Main features:
- Special modes for plays and screenplays which make formatting easy.
- A side panel that makes common operations quicker and more convenient.
- Instant backup of all open files to the device of your choice - a very convenient way to make sure you dont lose your work.
- Automatic creation of cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts.
- Automatic insertion of user-defined words - for character names or commonly used words.
- Four extra clipboards for inserting longer phrases or paragraphs.
- A comprehensive but simple printing system, including a print preview that shows exactly how your work will look on the page.
- Creation of HTML files of your work for publishing on the web.
- Importing of files in Word 6.0, Word 97 and HTML formats.
- Up to 100 files open at the same time.
- Spellchecking. British and American English dictionaries are included. Dictionaries for many other languages can be downloaded.
- Live spellchecking that underlines misspelled words in red as you type.
- A custom spellchecking dictionary so you can add your own words.
- A dictionary and thesaurus facility (provided by Anthony Lewis WordWeb program, which has to be installed separately - its not required to run RoughDraft, but strongly recommended).
- Comprehensive text and paragraph formatting options.
- Saving of files in the popular Rich Text Format (RTF), meaning they can be opened in just about any other word processor.
- Full find and replace, including the ability to list all the matches in the current file or in a number of files.
- Font styles for quicker formatting.
- Shortcut keys for just about everything.
- A comprehensive help system.