Important: Before you can use AutoSummarize in Microsoft Office Word 2007, you must add AutoSummary Tools to the Quick Access Toolbar. How AutoSummarize works AutoSummarize determines key points by analyzing the document and assigning a score to each sentence. Sentences that contain words used frequently in the document are given a higher score. You then choose a percentage of the highest-scoring sentences to display in the summary. You can select whether to highlight key points in a document, insert an executive summary or abstract at the top of a document, create a new document and put the summary there, or hide everything but the summary. If you choose to highlight key points or hide everything but the summary, you can switch between displaying only the key points in a document (the rest of the document is hidden) and highlighting them in the document. As you read, you can also change the level of detail at any time. Important: Complying with all applicable copyright laws is your responsibility. You should review the accuracy of any summary because it is, by its nature, not the entirety of the work. ![]() Add AutoSummary Tools to the Quick Access Toolbar • Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options. • Click Customize. • In the list under Choose commands from, click All Commands. • Scroll through the list of commands until you see AutoSummary Tools. • Click AutoSummary Tools, and then click Add. The AutoSummary Tools button now appears in the Quick Access Toolbar. Automatically summarize a document • On the Quick Access Toolbar, click AutoSummary Tools, and then click AutoSummarize. • Select the type of summary that you want. • In the Percent of original box, type or select the level of detail to include in the summary. Select a higher percentage of the original document to include more detail. • If you don't want AutoSummarize to replace your existing keywords and comments in the document properties, clear the Update document statistics check box. After you create your summary, review it to make sure it covers your document's key points. Keep in mind that the summary text is a rough draft, and you will probably need to fine-tune it. To cancel a summary in progress, press ESC. After you create your summary, review it to make sure it covers your document's key points. Keep in mind that the summary text is a rough draft, and you will probably need to fine-tune it. ![]() Posted in:,, One thing writers hate doing but will inevitably have to do (one day or another, at least) is the Dreaded Synopsis. An agent may request it in his/her submission materials, or an editor might want it once your agent has you out on subs. My film agent needed it for shopping around Something Strange & Deadly, and I would imagine other rights-agents would want a short, simple synopsis for the same reason. So in other words: you have to learn to do this. You need it before you’re published, and you’ll certainly need it afterwards. Specifically, you’ll need to be able to write the 1 or 2-page synopsis. But Sooz, you say. It’s hard to boil my whole ingenious novel into a few key sentences. To convey the depth, the emotion, the literary power of your novel in 500 words or less—impossible! Ah, but is possible my friends. It’s possible and can even be fun (if you enjoy mental torture like me). To learn how to write a short synopsis, I took workshops, read books, and wrote a few drafts until I had a gleaming 1-page book summary. And after all that practice, I realized I had my own method (built from the methods of my various teachers, of course), and I’m sharing that method with you here. To use this worksheet, fill out the questions in sentence form. ![]() ![]() Though your story may not follow this exact format, try to find some critical event in the story that can be placed in that space. You will likely notice that the worksheet is very similar to the (because most stories follow that format!), and I have filled out the questions using my All Time Favorite Movie as the example. Once you have filled out the worksheet, rewrite them on a fresh sheet of paper and try to eliminate words, tighten sentences, and variate sentence structure. How many words do you have? You want to shoot for under 500, and you want to have some “space” left for inserting connective words (e.g. Meanwhile, then, after, etc.). You also want to have extra space to add any events that are needed for explanation/flow. Rule of thumb: You should only name three characters in a short synopsis—usually, the protagonist, antagonist, and possible love interest/side-kick/contagonist. All other characters should be referred to by their roles (e.g. Synopsis Word Template professionally designed for documents, cover pages, and complete compatible with any major version of Microsoft Word. Download now. An executive summary template can be described as a short section of formal written document prepared by an individual or company to gives a preview of. Beginning on the next page is an outline template (in Microsoft Word format), which is filled in with a sample to show you what a final outline looks like. Jet skis destroy peace and quiet. They pollute the air and water; They harass wildlife. Close With Impact. Please sign a petition that I will send to our U.S. ![]() The waitress, the mother, the basketball player). Rule of thumb: You must tell the ending! The purpose of a synopsis is to show an editor/agent you can tell a story from beginning to end. You will not entice them into reading your whole MS if you don’t share the ending—you’ll just tick them off! ? Rule of thumb: Do not include subplots unless you have extra space at the end!!!!! Stick to the MAIN PLOT EVENTS. About Sooz Susan Dennard has come a long way from small-town Georgia. As a marine biologist, she got to travel the world—six out of seven continents, to be exact (she’ll get to Asia one of these days!)—before she settled down as a full-time novelist and writing instructor. She lives in the Midwestern US with her French husband and Irish setter, and you can learn more about her crazy thoughts and crippling cookie-addiction on her,,,,. Her series is now available from HarperTeen, and The Witchlands series will launch from Tor in January 2016. I think you have to decide if your “flashbacks” are typical reveals or a bigger piece of the story structure (e.g. ALL books have Big Reveal points–areas where the MC/reader learns special backstory or about something happening offstage. My own book, SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY, is all about Eleanor figuring out what the heck her brother was doing–and as she uncovers clues, it triggers memories that lead to more clues. In my one page synopsis, though, I never mention those memories (there isn’t space) but rather the consequence of the memory. For example: “She escapes from the opera that night, and she and Daniel break into the dynamite factory. Daniel is caught, but Eleanor manages to save him. When they return to the Spirit-Hunters’ lab, they find it was destroyed while they were gone.” During that passage, there are actually two massive flashback/memory reveals that give Eleanor all the pieces she needs to solve several mysteries at once. BUT, because I don’t have the space to say all that, I just relay the actions she takes that drive the main plot. Now, all that said, if your story is a different structure than chronological–e.g. MOMENTO–then I would order your synopsis according to the story order (not according to the chronological passage of events). Does that help at all? Thank you very much Susan! This nuts-and-bolts step-by-step approach helped me break through the impasse I was suffering with my novel. The tale is, in fact, a multiple POV story with co-protagonists and co-antagonists, but concentrating on one protagonist allowed me to revise the first third of the novel and streamline the plot. The synopsis itself is now flowing after months of struggle! Sooper: what I’m doing is only touching on subplots if the co-protagonists or co-antagonists are involved. It’s not a perfect solution, but I expect a 1-page result.
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