My experience

[W. Knox Richardson]

I began with yWriter4 in 2009 and have been working on a single novel since then. It's finally time to move to Word for some formatting and tweaks.  Made a couple weeks' worth of changes on the live manuscript and suddenly Word didn't like my 655 Kb file.  So I exported  imported back into yWriter again.  The software imported the rtf without issue and recreated all the chapters in 99 percent order and nesting, even holding on to a bit of formatting. I am blown away. I will stay in this system until I am ready for formatting for KDP in a few weeks via Atticus.  Advice, don't leave the nest before you are ready to leave it all behind for good.  Thank you, Simon.

[Simon Haynes]

Good to hear it's working for you.

BTW you can export direct to epub from yWriter now, or you can export to LaTeX and generate a print-ready PDF for paperbacks.

But more importantly, you can export to DocX instead of RTF.

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On Wed, 16 Sept 2026 at 03:03, W. Knox Richardson <wkno...@gmail.com> wrote:

I began with yWriter4 in 2009 and have been working on a single novel since then. It's finally time to move to Word for some formatting and tweaks.  Made a couple weeks' worth of changes on the live manuscript and suddenly Word didn't like my 655 Kb file.  So I exported  imported back into yWriter again.  The software imported the rtf without issue and recreated all the chapters in 99 percent order and nesting, even holding on to a bit of formatting. I am blown away. I will stay in this system until I am ready for formatting for KDP in a few weeks via Atticus.  Advice, don't leave the nest before you are ready to leave it all behind for good.  Thank you, Simon.

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