Please don’t send me to the manual! It’s impossibly dense.
I just have a simple question. How can I have a navigation pane that allows me to jump across sections? I had hoped you could do it the Word way, just by headings.
Then I tried making sections, but could not see them anywhere, but I am not sure I am doing that right.
Any advice most welcome. This is a great tool but they make many things more complicated than should be, especially by using different shortcuts and commands than common platforms. Please simplify!
Thanks. The problem is that I have already imported a huge document into Scrivener to work there. I don’t want to spend all the time splitting it up. Is there no way for it to work the word way?
Also, can you just select text and make it a separate section? All I can see here is to enter a break but it keeps the previous title not that of the heading you are at.
Thank you!
But in Scrivener, the Binder structure is the outline. No other divisions are meaningful to it.
If you haven’t already, I’d recommend taking a look at our Interactive Tutorial, available from the Help menu. It’s a good overview of Scrivener’s fundamental operations, and also a good example of a well-structured Scrivener project.
For your situation as you have expressed it, I second @kewms’s advice–use Microsoft Word.
Or, perhaps more productively, take a little time to go through the Scrivener Tutorial and at least skim the “Scrivener Manual” to know what is there for when you have the need to look learn about something you need or are interested in. You can find a number of good books on Scrivener including “Mastering Scrivener” written by @AntoniDol who frequents this forum.
Thanks, this is very helpful. Scrivener not only cares about my headings, apparently, as you kind instructions show, it is perfectly capable of splitting the document using the existing outline structure, exactly as I asked, even simpler! It even uses the Word section headings as section titles. And it has them nicely nested under the title, with toggles to expand. Perfect.
Some people here are underselling the product…Advising people to stick with Word when they’ve paid $60 and the product does exactly what you need it to do seems unhelpful.
But thanks Vincent, your advice was clear and worked perfect!
