Hello, I am using Scrivener for Mac, v 3,2,3 and was wondering why the formatting looks so weird. It must be adding formatting from my word doc.
Any advise on getting text to line up on the left side w/o indentations?
Can’t add a screenshot for some reason.
Thanks!
Hello stembridge. Welcome to the forum.
You probably can’t share a screenshot due to being new to the forum.
To correct the formatting you imported from Word, you can go to Documents > Convert > Text to Default Formatting. Scrivener will display a panel of options and a warning about how that command may be destructive.
Section 15.7.5 of the Scrivener manual gives some additional insights on using that command, as well as a tip about using Snapshots for comparison purposes. You can access a PDF of the Manual via Scrivener’s Help menu. (That is also where the Interactive Tutorial is housed, by the way.)
You might also consider using File > Back Up > Back Up To to make a copy of your project, perhaps stored on your Mac’s Desktop temporarily, where you test that command on a document or two. That would allow you to revert back if the changes aren’t to your liking.
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Thank you very much for the pointer, this worked perfectly. I figured it was a formatting issue.