Already started your project in Word? Bring it into InkScribe and carry on, instead of retyping it. Your chapters, headings, title page, tables, figures and references come in; you then get the outline, verified references, formatting and the writing assistant on top of your own work.

When to import

You have written some chapters and want help finishing the rest.
Your supervisor has returned it with corrections.
The formatting is a mess: numbering, table of contents, references.
You want to check your existing references are real before you submit.

Importing is part of the Starter and Pro plans.

Prepare your file

Save it as a Word document (.docx). An older .doc file must be opened in Word and saved as .docx first.
Keep your chapter headings as they are, “CHAPTER ONE” and so on. That is how InkScribe finds your chapters.
Leave the title page at the start, and the reference list under a “References” heading at the end.

Import it

Start a new report. On the first step, click Import .docx and choose your file. In a few seconds InkScribe reads it and tells you what it found:

The first step of a new report after importing a Word file: the file name with 2 chapters, 7 sections, 468 words and 4 references, the title filled in, and the title page rebuilt on the right with the University of Benin crest — The import found the chapters, sections and references, and rebuilt the title page.

Your title, name, matric number, school, department, faculty and supervisor are read from your title page and filled in for you. Check each one, then continue through the steps as for a new report.

Check what came in

Your text arrives in your chapters exactly as you wrote it, with citations turned into live citations. Chapters you haven’t written yet are added from your department’s outline, ready to write.

The imported report in the editor: Chapter One with the student’s own background section and live citations, and the outline showing the imported chapters plus the remaining chapters added — Your own text, with live citations. The chapters you haven’t written are added for you.

Read through quickly for anything that came in wrongly, such as a heading taken for text, and fix it as you would in Word.

Your references

InkScribe checks each reference in your list against publication records and fills in what’s missing, such as the DOI, journal and volume. Open Sources to see the result:

The Sources panel after import: the student’s four references, each marked Your file and DOI verified, with how many times each is cited — Each imported reference, checked. “Your file” marks the ones from your document.

A reference that can’t be found is kept in your list as you wrote it, but flagged so you can check it. It may have a typo in the title, or it may not exist. Correct it, or replace it with a real source. Your imported references don’t count against your plan.

Fix it up

Now work through your supervisor’s comments. Tell InkScribe what was said, in your own words:

InkScribe’s suggested improvement to section 1.2 Statement of the problem shown in the report, with the old text struck through and the new text, backed by verified papers, in green; the request on the right asks to keep the student’s points and back the claims with real sources — “My supervisor said 1.2 is too thin and has no sources.” The improvement comes back as a suggestion, with real papers.

Edits to your own text come back as suggestions: your wording struck through, the new wording beside it. Accept what helps, reject what doesn’t, and edit the rest. Your points stay yours.

Carry on

From here it works like any other report: write the remaining chapters with Write with InkScribe, add diagrams and photos, run the Plagiarism & AI check, and export to Word or PDF with the formatting done. See How to use InkScribe for the full walkthrough.

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