How do I get a standard manuscript DOCX out of Ulysses?

What the file has to look like

"Standard manuscript format" is a convention, not a specification, and agents and magazines publish their own variations. Read theirs first. The common core looks like this:

• US Letter or A4 paper with one-inch margins all round.
• 12-point Times New Roman or Courier, double-spaced, ragged right.
• A half-inch first-line indent and no extra space between paragraphs.
• A header on every page after the first with your surname, a short title, and the page number.
• Each chapter starting on a new page, its title a few lines down.
• A centered # or similar mark on its own line for a scene break.

Exporting it from Ulysses

1. Mark each chapter title as a first-level heading (#) in its sheet. Export styles format first-level headings on their own, which is what lets you start chapters on new pages.
2. Select the book's sheets in order (on a Mac, Shift-click them in the sheet list) and open the export preview with the canvas toolbar's export button or ⇧+⌘+P. The selected sheets go out together as one document.
3. Choose DOCX as the format and pick a style. The built-in styles are general purpose, and Styles & Themes, the site Ulysses' help calls the Style Exchange, offers manuscript-format styles made by other users; download one and it appears in the style list.
4. To adjust a style you need a Mac. Built-in styles are locked, so duplicate one under Settings › Styles and open the copy in a text editor with Edit. Its style sheet reads much like CSS: set the body font, spacing, indent, and margins there, and give the first-level heading a page-break setting so each chapter starts a new page.
5. Open the DOCX in Word and add the running header there if the style did not. Check the scene-break mark, since a Markdown divider can become a horizontal rule instead of a #.

In Tabularia

A Ulysses library cannot be read directly; the import guide asks for an export first, and a TextBundle or Markdown export keeps headings as structure. Those first-level headings become chapters.

For submission, the DOCX export is the one the guide points agents and editors toward. It writes a Letter page with one-inch margins. Each paragraph keeps the face, size, and spacing of its block style. Chapter titles go out in Word's heading styles. It is clean: no review markup, no comments. What it leaves to Word is the page furniture — the surname and page-number header and a page break before each chapter — which takes a couple of minutes to add there.

When the manuscript is not set in a typeface Tabularia provides, the PDF export falls back to standard manuscript format on its own, in Courier and double-spaced. Some agents accept a PDF; many still ask for Word.