This will take the highlighted words out of the scene and put it in the “Scene Description” field automatically. Then RIGHT-Click and select “Cut selection for Scene Description”.
Open up each scene and highlight the Description that you typed after each * * * in MSWord. yWriter will import the novel and then prompt you for new project file name. Choose the RTF file of your novel/project. Open yWriter5, click the PROJECT> IMPORT INTO NEW PROJECT > IMPORT A WORK IN PROGRESS. Go to FILE > Save AS, and make sure to save the document as a RTF. Then make another RETURN and Type a line for the scene title. After the asterisks, make two RETURNS/PARAGRAPH spaces and Type a line for the scene description. You can use yWriter and do the SEARCH > GLOBAL SEARCH AND REPLACE and change it back to asterisks once the novel is imported For those area where you want to keep the * * *, replace those with # instead. Then in the “Replace With” field put ^p^p* * *^p. NOTE: In MSWord Click CTRL+H, and in the “Find What” box put three ^p or two ^p to find paragraph marks. Put the * * * in every place before your scene. A scene is anywhere that you have a double-space to show a passage of time or a change of scenery. Put a * * * ( three asterisks with spaces in between) before each scene. For instance, as the software states: If you use HAL to replace BAL, it will also change HALF into BALF It won’t replace any partial words anywhere else in the novel. I use the brackets so that there would be no mistaking it. Do a search for the word “Chapter” throughout your entire manuscript and make sure to replace them with a different made-up like and replace it with the word “chapter”. I recommend just put the name of the chapter on the next line down. If you’re using Headings to automatically number your chapters, these are okay, but the words/titles beside the chapter will not be pulled over to yWriter. 
Make sure there’s a chapter, the word “Chapter 1” for each chapter.
Doing these steps would make things a bit easier.
Prepare your MSWord Novel for importing into yWriter. Stuff I’ve learned and had to research and find out to make my life a bit more easier, though yWriter is making it is easy enough (and more fun) for my writing.
I wanted to share some tips and tricks of yWriter.
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