I wrote using Scrivener, my manuscript has about 20 sections, I created a synopsis for each one. When I compiled and exported to a word docx, the resulting file had lots of weird formatting between each section.
In Word, I cleaned up the formatting, AND edited quite a few things.
Is it possible to use the Snapshot feature to compare the contents?
I’d like to re-import my word doc, AND keep the synopsis for the sections I already created.
BTW, The entire word doc is about 3500 words.
Thanks!
Any advice on this workflow for future docs would be greatly appreciated!
Ideally when exported you had a separator between sections like ### . If so you can import and separate at ### separator. ( Backup project before starting this process and do a snapshot of each Scrivener document.) Now copy first imported document and paste and replace text in first scrivener document. You the can compare snapshot to current document and make additional changes and do another snapshot. Rinse and repeat.
Did you by any chance have track-changes turned on in Word when you edited that doc? If so, it might, all in all be easier to simply show track-changes in the Word doc and then edit the Scrivener docs accordingly. Depends on how much changing you really did. Safer procedure for newbie also.
If you still have somewhere the compiled Word doc as it was before the edits, you can use Word’s Compare docs function to make visible what you changed. This too could enable you to see if smart money is just to manually make the corresponding edits in your master copy (your Scriv project).
Needless to say, however you look at it, you set yourself up for some work by falling to the temptation of editing the Word doc instead of your master source, the Scriv project. A worthy lesson in there for all of us.
Alas, I removed all of the separators, I was sharing to someone who would have been distracted by them. I’m thinking of exporting what I have into word again, and comparing there.
How do I export without the separators and page breaks?
I didn’t save the word export before making changes, I was trying to hit a deadline..
I’ve exported from two projects, one is essay, the other the non- fiction format. When i export from the essay, I don’t get all the weird page breaks and ###. When i export from the non-fiction project, the resulting doc has all of that extra formatting.
Once I have this issue fixed, I don’t want the ### or page breaks in my exports. What is the best way to achieve this? Can I copy my sections to a new essay project? Convert my existing project to an essay? Is there a way to turn off that formatting in the non-fiction exports? I’ve yet to dive into the compiler exporting functions successfully.
You are missing the point . Edit inside scrivener and take a snapshot before editing and then can compare changes. If you sent to word to document as a whole then select all the documents and view in Scrivenings to make it look continuous while editing.
Or if want one interrupted document then do file> save as and save edited project as a new project ( word version) . Now take new project and select all the documents and use merge command to make one file and then export that.
This is an excellent idea. For this purpose don’t worry about the scene break markers ###. Using Word’s compare documents, you can then see exactly what changes you made to the content of your text, and see if, as I suspec, the simplest thing is to just manually make those edits to the Scriv project.
The way to do that is to (either use a different compile format when you compile or) just tweak the Compile format you are using. (If it is a stock compile format you will Duplicate & Edit it.) Inside the compile format settings there is a area for Separators where you can specify what sort of markers if any should appear between sections. The #’s are a standard way of marking scene breaks in (fiction) manuscripts.
P.S. You actually know someone who i) can read your manuscript, but ii) would be confused by seeing those #s. The mind boggles!
