How use Scrivener Styles knowing I will be formatting document in word in a finishing stage

Hi Folks,
I feel most comfortable formatting in MS word, but love Scrivener for organizing and writing the content
of documents.

What is the best approach I can take to rough out a document in Scrivener and then turn to Word to use its extensive formatting capability?

Guessing…I use Scrivener’s style terms. then run the scrivener document through Scrivener’s Compile
operator that may convert Scrivener Style formatting into Word formatting. Perhaps From there i can handle it.

If that is the case, then i need to define margins and paragraph spacing and spacing around the style
formatting. (ie: if i selected a phrase as “Heading 1” i could define the spacing before and after Heading 1

I look forward to how other people have solved this overall quest of passing scrivener documents to word
and the specific quest of defining spacing around styled phrases within a scrivener document.

Thank you

oh…is there an exceptional physical book that i can buy that clearly goes into the details of how to use the latest version of Scrivener? I seem to do best with books that clearly show where to find the critical
steps in a process. For example. If “print preview” is shown in the “how to use Scrivener” book, and yet
my scrivener has a grayed out “print preview” It helps to have a note indicating that a grayed out command means …and to fix it requires the following steps. Maybe what I am asking for is impossible.
anyway. any help will be appreciated.

No need for that.
Scrivener can compile it out properly.

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There are no margins in Scrivener’s editor. (Only the left one, stuck at 0. And the right indent value you can see in my 6th screenshot is from the left side, not from the right side, as there is no right side in Scrivener. The page goes on forever.)
→ Unless you use page view, in which case the editor takes the size defined in your page setup. File / Page Setup....
Page margins are otherwise to be set at compile (the last operation in the chain of development of a project), in the Page Settings tab of your compile format.

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Well, there is the manual…
There is also @AntoniDol’s book. → antonidol.com

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