How to set default text formatting for whole project

[AmberV]

This thread predates the current version of Scrivener. These days it is no longer a Mac/Win specific answer. Here is the modern thread for that topic:

Change global default formatting in the editor

Hello all, I’ve been writing off and on for most of my life. Since I went electronic, I’ve been using Word. I have a couple of works for which I needed something more, and I found an excellent set of organizational tools in Scrivener. Writing individual stories or articles is easy; what I want now is to organize all that into a more cohesive final project. Last night I spent some time organizing sections for one of these works and importing Word files. By and large, this was a fruitful exe…

I would post any follow-up questions you might have over there, to keep this one focused on v1, for anyone that might still need help on that.