# Exporting chapters from a manuscript

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/exporting-chapters-from-a-manuscript/18145>\
**Category:** Wish List\
**Created:** [May 28, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/exporting-chapters-from-a-manuscript/18145 "2012-05-28T17:46:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![beppe](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/beppe/32/32978_2.png) [@beppe](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/beppe)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/exporting-chapters-from-a-manuscript/18145/1 "2012-05-28T17:46:35Z")

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I posted a similar question in the Technical Support:  
[url][https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/rtf-chapterized-version-of-the-manuscript/18132/1](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/rtf-chapterized-version-of-the-manuscript/18132/1)]  
but just to find a workaround to something that I think could be implemented.

I believe that it is quite common in Scrivener to use the following approach:  
folder=chapter, document=scene; while in MS Word scenario, the approach being document=chapter.  
This usage is for example suggested in David Hewson’s book.

Since it is fairly common to send out ms word manuscripts, and in order to do it nicely you need to break down the whole manuscript.doc (or manuscript.rtf) into several chapter\_##.doc, I think it would be a great implementation of Scrivener if this export process could be added to your software.

I mean to export or compile the whole manuscript so that the final result is a series of documents each of one is a single chapter of the manuscript.

Beppe

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**Author:** ![Ahab](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Ahab](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Ahab)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/exporting-chapters-from-a-manuscript/18145/2 "2012-05-28T18:24:43Z")

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I don’t know the publishing convention in Italy, but for the U.S. this one-file-per-chapter approach is very much past-tense. Everyone I know now prefers a single Word file, with everything in it except for the cover letter.

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**Author:** ![MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/mimeticmouton/32/34_2.png) [@MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/MimeticMouton)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/exporting-chapters-from-a-manuscript/18145/3 "2012-05-28T18:27:26Z")

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If you do want this, though, the new compile type for iBooks Author will do just this, using .docx files rather than .doc:

> [@Beta changelog](#):
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> Added “iBooks Author Chapters (.docx)” to the list of compile formats. This will break up the text by chapter (as set in the “Separators” pane for this format) and save each chapter to a different .docx file.

This will be in the next update (2.3), but you could download the latest beta from the forum to test it out if you like.

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**Author:** ![beppe](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/beppe/32/32978_2.png) [@beppe](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/beppe)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/exporting-chapters-from-a-manuscript/18145/4 "2012-05-28T20:36:06Z")

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I had hoped to suggest you guys something original!  
Now I have to think at something else 😉