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Short answers on how to write, cite, check and export in WriteOrbit.

Getting started

New document: Start blank, pick a template (literature review, research proposal or essay), or open a Word file. Its formatting, comments and tracked changes come with it.
Saving: Your work saves as you type. File › Version history shows earlier versions. You can name a version or restore it.
Sharing: Click Share to invite people by email as editors, commenters or viewers, or to turn on a link.

Autocomplete: Turn it on in the toolbar. Pause at the end of a paragraph and a grey suggestion appears, with its sources. Tab accepts, Refine asks again, Conclude writes a closing sentence and the next heading.
AI suggest and Cite: The small bar at the cursor writes from that exact spot, or opens citation search.
Autocomplete sources: Use the arrow next to Autocomplete to choose where suggestions come from: web or Library papers, one Library folder, publication years, citation counts and preprints.
Write with AI: Open it from the side rail or the AI menu. Give a topic and choose papers, your Library or both. It drafts the document section by section with citations, and you accept each part.
A paragraph: Hover over a paragraph and click ✦ to edit it with AI, find citations for it, ask about it, review it or comment.

Cite: Type @ or use Cite in the toolbar, then search your Library and published papers. WriteOrbit builds the reference list under References.
Style: Pick a style in the status bar (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, AMA, ACS, IEEE, Vancouver and more). Every citation and reference updates. See all styles
A citation: Click a citation to open the paper, save it to your Library, switch to Author (Year) or edit it.

Library: Upload PDFs and sort them into collections. Cite them, or click Ask to chat about one.
Find papers: Search 250M+ scholarly works and filter by year, citation count and open access. Cite a paper in your document or save it to your Library.
AI Chat: Answers cite real papers. Choose Web, Library or Document as sources, and add context with @.

Checks: Run Claim check, peer review, source quality, proofread or tone on the whole document or on a selection.
Changes: Proofread and Claim check fixes can appear as tracked changes. Accept or reject them one at a time or all at once.
Comments: Select text and add a comment (Ctrl+Alt+M). Reply to, resolve or delete comments in the Comments panel.

Word: File › Download Word saves a .docx with headings, footnotes, comments, tracked changes, equations, tables and images.
PDF: File › Download PDF. Set the page size, margins, running head and page numbers in File › Page setup.
LaTeX: File › Download LaTeX saves a zip you can open in Overleaf, with main.tex, references.bib and your figures.

On a Mac, use ⌘ for Ctrl and ⌥ for Alt.

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