This seems to be a relatively rare bug. It happened to me and another poster, as reported in this thread. My guess it that Scrivener’s internal preferences become corrupted. Currently my toolbar is fine, but it does occasionally still go wonky.
Yeah, that’s the problem. L&L is aware of the bug, as per the thread above, but I was never able to provide them a sequence of steps to recreate it–so it’s going to be tricky for them to fix it.
Hopefully @Jestar’s suggestion works for you. I suspect it won’t, as tweaking the toolbar by adding or removing GAPs never fixed it for me, but if it does for you–wonderful! If it doesn’t, then try the workarounds suggested below.
Workaround “Quick Fix” - If you haven’t made too many customizations to your toolbars, then try resetting your toolbars to the defaults (View > Customize Toolbars > Restore Defaults). If that fixes it–wonderful!
Workaround “Nuclear Option” - If the Quick Fix doesn’t fix it and/or you’ve made too many customizations to your toolbars to want to reimplement them manually–this is the case with me–then try the steps below:
- Save current preferences (File > Options > Manage > Save Options to File)
- Reset preferences to default (File > Options > press Defaults button)
- Reset toolbars to default (View > Customize Toolbars > Restore Defaults)
- Close and restart Scrivener program
- Load saved preferences from step #1 (File > Options > Manage > Load Options from File)
- Close and restart Scrivener program
The Nuclear Option usually fixes the toolbar spacing bug for me. My theory is that the process of resetting the preferences does away with the corruption.
Hopefully one of the workarounds in this thread helps you with this.
Best,
Jim