Split and Merge Documents

Under the Transform submenu in the context menu of an item in the project tree, you will find several options on how to change a document or folder. This includes changing between document and note, but also splitting them into multiple documents, or merging child items into a single document.

Splitting Documents

The Split Document dialog.

The Split Document by Headings option will open a dialog that allows you to split the selected document into multiple new documents based on the headings it contains. You can select at which heading level the split is to be performed from the dropdown box. The list box will preview which headings will be split into new documents.

You are given the option to create a folder for these new documents, and whether or not to create a hierarchy of documents. That is, put sections under scenes, and scenes under chapters.

The source document is not deleted in the process, but you have the option to let the tool move the source document to the Trash folder.

Merging Documents

The Merge Documents dialog.

You have two options for merging documents that are child elements of another document. You can either Merge Child Items into Self and Merge Child Items into New. The first option will pull all content of child items and merge them into the parent document, while the second option will create a new document in the process.

When merging documents in a folder, only the latter option is possible, so only the choice Merge Documents in Folder is available.

In either case, the Merge Documents dialog will let you exclude documents you don’t want to include, and it also lets you reorder them if you wish.