![]() ![]() As soon as you start typing (and there’s enough text for it to matter), the line you’re working on jumps to the center. ![]() Typewriter Scrolling fixes that by keeping the “scroll line” at the center of the screen. Tired of the words you’re typing always being at the bottom of the screen? I find this especially annoying on laptops. TIP: The Move arrows are handy buttons to add to your toolbar. To make a file a subdocument of another file, go to Documents>Move To> (Mac) or Documents>Move>To> (Windows). To adjust a file’s position in the Binder, go to Edit>Move>Move Up/Move Down/Move Left/Move Right (Mac) or Documents>Move>Left/Right/Up/Down (Windows). If you struggle to drag files to the desired location in the Binder, check out the Move options. Most publishers now prefer a single space between sentences, but if you can’t change your habit, Scrivener can clean up your manuscript for you.Ĭlick anywhere in the text and go to Edit>Text Tidying>Replace Multiple Spaces with Single Spaces (Mac) or Format>Convert>Multiple Spaces to Space (Windows). Indents are always recommended over tabs in word processing, regardless of which software you’re using.Īnother holdover many of us learned from typing class is the use of two spaces between sentences. Indents, on the other hand, can be adjusted for an entire document or manuscript (either in the Editor or during the compile process) allowing you to move easily between a block format (i.e., no indents) and various indent depths as desired. *Using tabs is undesirable because they’re an actual character (though invisible) that takes up space and is inflexible. TIP: Project Replace also works to get rid of extra paragraph returns (replace two with one by using Ctrl+Enter to add the paragraph return character). To do so, press Ctrl+Tab to enter a tab character in the Replace text box. Until version 3 releases, Windows users will need to use Project Replace (Edit>Find>Project Replace) to remove tabs. Be sure to check out the other handy options under this menu as well. Mac users can click in the text of a document and go to Edit>Text Tidying>Strip Leading Tabs. To turn them off, repeat the steps but choose Hide Invisibles.ĭid you accidentally use tabs instead of indents to indent your paragraphs?* No worries! To see paragraph returns, spaces, tabs and other non-printing characters, go to View>Text Editing>Show Invisibles (Mac) or Format>Options>Show Invisibles (Windows). NOTE: For each project, Scrivener remembers the last-used group view, so until you select a different option, Scrivener will display all folders in single document view. This puts the folder in single document view. To view the text area of a folder, select the folder, click the View menu, and deselect whichever of the three group view modes has a checkmark (Scrivenings, Corkboard, or Outliner). This can be useful for epigraphs, datelines, and images that come at the start of a chapter or part. A folder can have text of its own (i.e., not in a subdocument), much like you can write on a manila folder in real life. The difference between a folder and a text document is rather loose in Scrivener. To switch a document to a folder, select the document and choose Documents>Convert>to Folder (Mac) or Documents>Convert>Convert to Folder (Windows). To change a folder into a document, select the folder and go to Documents>Convert>to File (Mac) or Documents>Convert>Convert to File (Windows). Simply select the desired documents in the Binder and go to Documents>New Folder from Selection (Mac) or Documents>Group (Windows).Ĭonvert a Document to a Folder or Vice Versa When you want to put several documents into a folder that doesn’t yet exist, Scrivener can do that with a single command. Select the file you want to choose a new icon for and go to Documents>Change Icon. Quickly change the icon of any file to denote its contents, status, or whatever you want. Think you’re stuck with little pieces of paper and folders to represent your documents and folders? Not so. Below is a roundup of some of these easily overlooked, but highly useful-or just plain fun-tools and tricks that’ll make you feel like an expert. There’s a treasure trove of helpful features hiding in Scrivener’s menus and settings. ![]()
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