I’m very new to Scrivener, so I apologise for such a simple question, but I’ve been struggling with it all afternoon (and couldn’t find the solution in a search of the forum).
I had a comment inserted within a text and then tried to add a footnote to the entire paragraph (this seems to be the best shortcut to ensuring that I don’t lose citations when I cut and paste segments in the future?). Every time I add the footnote though, the comment disappears. Am I crazy? Is there a solution to this?
Text cannot simultaneously store multiple links (that is what they technically are), so in these cases you may want to use combinations of inline notes, which can exist around the text rather than “over” it. You may find highlighting whole paragraphs a bit limiting for this reason and others, but if you prefer that there is nothing to prevent you from doing so.
Hi Amber, I now understand what happens, but I sometimes still make a mistake and link a comment to a whole paragraph, thus deleting the footnotes in it. How can I undo this to get the footnotes back?
The answer is in the wording of your question, the Undo command should restore the text from the mistake with the comment. You may need to press the ⌘Z shortcut more than once, especially if you typed into the comment box on accident, as the initial Undos will be for any typing done in the box.
Hmm, that is strange, though maybe it has to do with where the cursor is. If it is in the comment box it might get stuck at the last typing edit since it kind of has its own local undo. What I was trying was from the main editor, which is more the context within which the mistake was made. From there, the menu should first say, “Undo Edit Comment”, if the text box was edited and then “Undo Convert Comment”, which is the culprit. Upon using that menu command, the original footnote reappears.
