ExcellentWriter

What Word alone lacks in this kind of features is provided with this tool. This way you can stay inside the Office family if you like these programs.

Overview:

• Organize your book, chapters, scenes, drafts, characters, items, locations, arcs, eras, events, notes and your world.
• Write your complete novel and even format it in Excel.
• Have multiple drafts per scene, to keep track of your progress.
• Export single scenes to Word to see them fully formatted or export the whole manuscript at once.
• Export a scene to Word with direct speech highlighted.
• Insert comments, footnotes and pictures in your text.
• Get a better overview with the outline, the plotgrid, the timeline view and the relationship matrix.
• Generate calenders with custom days, month, seasons, special phases and events.
• Get ideas from the name generator, which you can extend by yourself. Just add files and folders according to the structure under "NameGenerator".
• Track your progress.
• If there will be a new version just import all your data from a previous one with just a few clicks.

This tool is written in the VBA Macro language. You need Microsoft Office to use this tool.