Book format suddenly screenplay?

Scrivener Scrivener for macOS
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I’m a quarter of the way through my book, one of many I’ve written using Scrivener when it got super-hinky. I moved on to the next scene but the font was different - now courier prime all caps - I recognized it as screenplay format, at least I think it is. Any new scene I add appears as a yellow three hole punch icon in the binder and it defaults to the courier prime all caps. I succeeded in copying and pasting a bit of text from the previous scene to override - the only way it would work, but each new scene is in the screenplay format.

The program crashed the first time I attempted to change the font and when it came back, it seems to be stuck halfway between novel format and screenplay format.

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To toggle scriptwriting off / on, press CMD 8.

Merx

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Thanks! That does take off the script format for the scene I’m in, but any new scene added automatically defaults to script format.

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See update below.

Welcome.

That sounds as though a document template has somehow defaulted to scriptwriting format.

Section “7.5 Document Templates” of the manual should help, if that is the case.

Merx

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Actually, if the current document is in scriptwriting mode, any new document will be created in scriptwriting mode as well.

Converting to standard-text mode and then creating a new file should produce a standard text document.

Merx

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It seems to be working correctly now. Not sure how it got goofed up. I suppose I might have accidentally hit the key for that.

Appreciate your time and assistance.

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Welcome.

Merx