How to permanently add icon from image (across all projects)

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Using number icons for my chapters. Is there a way to add icons from images to Scrivener permanently in all projects? Currently, I add them manually across projects.

Thank you!

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Icons are per project but you can add multiple ones at once if open the icon manager window. Add a group of icons you like into one folder then hit Ctrl +a and move all at once.

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Yes, there is a way, but only for new Projects – you have to do it manually for existing projects.

Basically, you’re going to set up a new Project Template with the icons already attached.

It’s probably simpler to start from a current project which already has the icons.

  1. Duplicate the project (File > Save As). Doesn’t matter what you call the copy as it’s only a temporary file.
  2. Making sure you’re in the new duplicate, delete all the binder elements you won’t need in a new project – i.e. you probably won’t want to keep scenes for the new project, but you may want to keep existing Document Templates and so on.
  3. Right click on a document and Change icon > Manage icons to see that all your icons are still there – they should be. Add any that are missing.
  4. File > Save As Template and give the new template a meaningful name - ‘Novel with Icons’ perhaps?

Now, when you go to File > New Project you should find your ‘Novel with Icons’ in the list of templates. Create a new project with that template then Documents > Change Icons to check the icons are still there in the list.

I’ve just tested this process on a Mac and it works smoothly – I don’t know of any reason why it wouldn’t work on Windows.

HTH.

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No way, I didn’t know that before. Thanks a lot!!! :blush: :blush: :blush:

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It worked, thank you! By the way, if anybody working for Scrivener sees this, for some reason you can’t click ctrl to select multiple images when adding the icons.

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