Because the basic idea of cell-writing is very simple, it is easy to overlook how helpful it can be. To fully appreciate what it is like and what it can do only comes from trying it and experiencing it in action. To that end, the following will be useful.
To see it in action:
A PowerPoint presentation that demonstrates with animations, cell-writing in practice.
[A video]
To try it for yourself:
A cell-writing proforma spreadsheet in [.odt] format.
A cell-writing proforma spreadsheet in [.xlsx] format.
Cell-writing is such a simple process that what has been said elsewhere about how to do it does not need to be expanded upon. The main practical issue that remains is to be commented upon has to do with finishing one's document.
Finishing Touches
Cell-writing is about producing a draft which contains well-structured content. The emphasis has been on content production and ways of assisting this. The aim of cell-writing is to produce content not to produce something that looks nice. It is not concerned with the final format or layout of the text of the document. However, the time eventually comes when the content is largely complete and its appearance does need to be considered. Sentences will need to be strung together one after another and paragraphs given an appropriate style. Text will also need to be put into a format suitable for printing. For these finishing touches, another application is necessary. This is best done using a word processor or some other text editor. Word processing is about making text look good more than it is about content.
Thus, the text produced using cell-writing must be transferred to another application. There are various ways of moving content generated in one application to another. For example, one could save or export the contents of the cell-writer spreadsheet as a text file. This procedure is not necessarily difficult but depending upon the spreadsheet used, there may be some technical details about which one should be sure to be conversant.
By far the simplest method I have found of moving text from a cell-writer spreadsheet to another application is by copying-and-pasting. One simply highlights and copies those blocks of text for transfer and then pastes them into their destination. That is the method I used to put text onto the pages of this website.
Once pasted, each cell's contents will appear on a separate line: one line per cell. This also applies to empty cells that have been copied. This serves as a good way of separating text into different paragraphs. One can then go about removing the breaks between lines one-by-one as one goes performs the final editing.
When it comes to moving content between applications, it is worth experimenting. This applies to copy-and-paste as well as to other methods of text transfer. One may find that different applications handle things in slightly different ways. I have found none of these differences to be particularly problematic or impossible to work around.
Once in a text editor or word processor, the formatting of the final text document is a matter for the writer and the conventions that they wish to follow.