I’ve used Scrivener for a long time and I’ve never had this happen. I opened a document that was working just fine yesterday. The text showed up very narrow, about maybe 2 inches wide. I messed around with indents and it got narrower. I did something else and it started slowly getting narrower and narrower, til it was one character wide. Then it all just disappeared. All documents in the project are the same. Nothing shows up. However, I can select-all, copy, and paste into another word processing program and it shows up. Can anyone help me with this?
I just selected “View” “Text Editing” “Show Page View” and all my text reappeared. But I still want to know what the heck happened. Is it a glitch in Scrivener or something I did?
If the text reappeared in Page View, it was never really “gone,” just hidden by your display settings.
The first thing I’d check is the Ruler, which you can reveal with the View → Text Editing → Show Ruler command. In particular, check the right and left indents, which appear as downward pointing arrows on the Ruler.
You might also check the Editor’s appearance settings, which you’ll find in the Scrivener → Settings → Appearance → Main Editor → Options pane. It’s possible that you accidentally made the Editor window too narrow to show any text. (These settings don’t affect Page View, so you’ll need to turn Page View off to test them.)