Don't Want to Redo All Formatting

[TromboneAl]

For my most recent project, I have everything set up for formatting: Section layouts, section formatting etc. For example, under My Formats I have a format called “My Bookfunnel PDF.”

I opened an old project and had Scriv convert it to the new version. I went to compile it, but found that even when I chose “My Bookfunnel PDF,” I had to to assign the formats and do the formatting.

How can I avoid that?

[anon56864026]

If I’m understanding you––it sounds that you tried to compile a converted project before setting the correct Section Types for the project. For stock Scrivener templates like the Novel one:

NOTE: If your Scrivener 2 project was created from a template such as the Novel template, it may well already have the correct Section Types set up for you. This is because, during the update process, if Scrivener detects that a project was created from one of the templates, it will set up the Section Types and Compile settings in the project to match the newer, 3.x version of the template.

The above is from the document titled Setting Up Section Types included in the downloadable project at Scrivener 3: A Guide for Scrivener 2 Users:
literatureandlatte.com/scri … date-guide

If it’s not a stock template (regardless, it’d be worthwhile to check), before compiling you’d need to set them manually at:
Project > Project Settings > Section Types…