Exporting DOCX
Most editors and agents work in Microsoft Word. The DOCX export turns your manuscript into a file they can open, comment on, and return with tracked changes.
Exporting#
- Open the book and press
⌘P/Ctrl+P, or choose File → Export…. - Choose Word (DOCX) as the format.
- Click Export.
- Choose where to save the file, and confirm.
Verkilo assembles your sections in order into a single Word document, with the same consistent formatting as every export — curly quotes, proper em-dashes, and your chapter and scene breaks carried through.
Sending only part of a book#
To put a few chapters in front of a critique partner rather than the whole manuscript, set the sections you’re not sending to None (Reference Only) before you export:
- Open the outliner (
⌘⇧K/Ctrl+Shift+K, then Outliner). - In the Compile column, set every section you want to hold back to None.
- Export as above.
- Set them back to All Formats when you’re done.
DOCX follows the same compile rules as PDF, so a section marked Ebook Only is left out of the Word file too. See Exporting overview for the full table.
Working with feedback#
The exported file has Track Changes switched on, so whoever opens it in Word starts recording their edits automatically. When the edited copy comes back, you don’t retype anything:
- Choose File → Import Word Edits… and pick the returned
.docx. - Every tracked insertion and deletion appears in the editor as a reviewable change, labeled with your editor’s name.
- Accept or reject them one at a time, or all at once — the same review flow as AI line edits.
Sections that can’t be confidently matched to your manuscript are reported and skipped, never guessed at.
Before importing a round of edits, take a snapshot of the book — Version History → Save Version — so you can compare against what you had.