academic paper formatting question

[littleozzyman]

Hello,

I’m a bit lost when it comes to transitioning from a scrivener text to the format I’d like to see on Word. I’ve tried to figure this out through the tutorial but can’t get it right. Here’s a sample of text in Scrivener that contains all my formatting issues:

When I upload this to word, I’d like the text to format to something like this:

IE: 1. Everything is double spaced and indented. 2. NO line breaks between paragraphs. 3. Line breaks to separate off block quotes.

In other words, more or less standard academic formatting. Can someone please explain how to set this up? Does it involve fiddling with my presets, or the formatting page, or both?

Thanks in advance!

Edit - I should add that there is, intentionally, NOT an indentation in the paragraph immediately following my block quote. That is because occasionally I want the text following a block quote – which will always be separated by a line break – to be part of the same paragraph. So I’d like to figure out how to format that as well. (My standard “body” preset indents all my paragraphs, so I created one called “unindented paragraph” for these cases.)

[AmberV]

Have you tried using the “Standard Manuscript Format” yet? It should be pretty close to what you’re looking for. You’ll probably want to use the Quick Font Override pane to adjust it to Times from Courier, and given your description of preserved block quotes, you will want everything except for the tabs & indents settings to be applied to them, so go into the Formatting compile pane, click the “Options…” button, and in the Preserve Formatting only preserves section, disable any of the checkboxes you need to. Since you appear to be spacing out your quotes with actual empty lines, instead of paragraph spacing, you should be okay. Otherwise you’d end up losing paragraph spacing since those ride with with line spacing, which you need to double-space everything.