I am in the throes of writing a long and complicated document. Periodically, my focus wanders from the task at hand and I draft text that, while unlikely to survive final edits of the MS, nevertheless may be of some value down the road. Of course I could create a new document, cut and paste the (ir)relevant text into it and save under an appropriate file name, but I can't help but think that it would be very useful to create the equivalent of MS Excel worksheets, call them "textsheets", that could store bits and pieces created and related to a common purpose. In that way, I could edit subsections of draft text in a textsheet titled, e.g., "Chapter 1" and, when satisfied, easily find, copy and then paste the text into the "Master Doc" textsheet without needing to sift through all of the Word docs in the neighborhood. Likewise, I could cut text from the Master Doc and preserve it in a separate textsheet for possible use later on.

Should the structure I describe already exist in Office 2013 I would be eternally grateful to learn how it might be accomplished. If not, maybe this an idea useful for incorporation in updated editions of MS Word?

Word has nothing comparable with Excel's worksheet structure. You can, of course, use separate documents...

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]