Changing font type and size in the inspector

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A stupid question, probably, but is there a simple way of changing simultaneously the font size and / or type of all notes in the inspector? Selecting all notes and then using the font panel doesn’t work. But probably there is something I overlooked.

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I don’t believe there is, but a work-round I’ve used is to convert all the inspector notes to inline, and then in Scrivenings view of all the documents, select all text, reformat to whatever I want, and convert inline notes back into inspector notes. Not great if you have got complicated formatting in your main text, but luckily for me I didn’t have that problem.

Martin.

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Inspector notes use a default font system, much like the text editor, which works until you change your mind, or realise a day later that you forgot to Paste and Match Style and now some of them look weird. To get all of the notes looking uniform again, select the notes you wish to fix (or just all of them) and right-click on the selection, and select “Convert to Default Formatting”.

What constitutes “default” can be set up in the Formatting preference tab. You’ll find font selectors for inspector comments, footnotes, and optionally inspector footnotes, too. You only need to change the footnote setting if you want them to differ from comments. If you leave that alone, the comments font selection impacts footnotes and comments alike.

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So it’s as simple as that! Thanks, Amber!

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Ah, yes – I’d forgotten about that option. There was some reason why I couldn’t use it, thought I can’t remember what it was, and that is why I used the more convoluted work-round. But sometimes it is useful to have two different ways of doing things …

Cheers, Martin.

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Thanks for this tip. I’ve changed the default to what I want. But…

I have 110 footnotes in the section that I’m working on. Is there any way to force all the footnotes in the project to change to the new default? Or do I have to change each one individually?

Thanks in advance,

Joe

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I tried that (on Windows version 1.6.1.0).

After I select all the footnotes for a section, so that they are all highlighted, when I “right-click on the selection, and select “Convert to Default Formatting”," it only changes the one that I right click on. Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Joe.

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Ah, sorry, this is the Mac section of the forum, so I was speaking on how it works there. I see on Windows that right-clicking dismisses any existing selection, so it looks like there is no way to reset them all at once. Your tag says Mac as well, so it might be worthwhile to do the conversion on the Mac.