A bit if formatting help please (some urgency)

[JimRac]

I don’t use Mac, so haven’t used Scriv 3 yet, but I hang out on the forums quite a bit and have a sense of where the new release is different from V2 and where it isn’t. I can address the points in your post.

@Greg McKitrick

I purchased Scrivener 3 after using Scrivener 2, assuming the fuctionality would be the same,

It’s a major upgrade. Biggest in years. So big they have charged us for it. Things have changed. A lot.

@Greg McKitrick

My first act with the new software was to import a Microsoft word document, the novel I had been working on and had recently sent to an editor. (They like to get things in the Microsoft word format.) Anyway, after her feedback, I wanted to import the Word file back into Scriverner. I did this and then split the manuscript into all of the smaller scenes that made it up. So far so good. But unlike Scrivener 2 these scenes were outside of any kind of manuscript folder. So the first thing I noticed was that word counts were limited to whatever scene I was working on. Where was the Manuscript folder? I found it at the bottom of the binder list rather than at the top. I moved it to the top. The Novel template is divided into Parts, Chapters and Scenes but I only wanted to use Parts and Scenes. So how to change that? I I don’t need the chapters folders but can’t seem to get rid of them.

I don’t believe the functionality of structuring things in the Binder has changed at all. For setting up your Parts and Scenes structure, have you tried simply dragging and dropping the items where you want them to be? You can drag the Parts where you want them within the Manuscript folder, then drag Scenes into the Parts. When you are done with the Parts and Scenes, click on each of your Chapters and then select Move to Trash.

@Greg McKitrick

The 2nd thing I wanted to do was getting total manuscipt word count working again. At the moment it still only giving me the word counts for the individal scenes and I need the manucript totals.

If you get your Parts and Scenes into the Manuscript folder as above, and you don’t have anything in the Manuscript folder but the Parts and Scenes, your total manuscript count should be correct.

@Greg McKitrick

Also I hope hope hope the compile feature works the same.

V3 Compile has changed dramatically. Read the V2 to V3 upgrade guide here:

[url]Updating from Scrivener 2 to Scrivener 3: A Guide]

@Greg McKitrick

That’s all for now but, because this manuscript is due in five days, I need to solve these issues. Thanks

Greg, if you are under a deadline, then you picked a really bad time to upgrade and just added a certain amount of stress to your life. How much stress is hard to say, but based on the relatively basic level of your questions, learning the new release while getting your manuscript out may be asking too much.

I recommend that you give yourself a defined period of time (half day? whole day?) with the new release and see if you can make it work. Go through the upgrade guide as suggested above. Don’t try this without reading the upgrade guide. Basically this a trial, to see if you think you can figure out the new version and complete your actual work.

At the end of that period, decide whether using V3 is feasible for you during this critical time.

If so, come back here with questions as challenges arise.

If not, downgrade your scrivener version to 2.9, which is the last version of the Scrivener 2 series. Your V3 license will work with 2.9. I believe you can run both V3 and V2.9 concurrently. In V3, you will need to Export your project in V2 format, to work on it in V2.9 again.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/release-notes?os=macOS

Another alternative is to ditch Scrivener for this round of edits and continue working in Word to meet your deliverable. What Scrivener functionality are you using to help you get through this point in your process? If you are doing a lot of reorganization of your manuscript, then the Scrivener binder will help. But if you are just going through and reviewing/incorporating/making edits, then you might be better off staying in Word at this point.

ETA: I see that Brookter had already responded while I was typing my tome, and much more succinctly! What he said!

HTH,
Jim