MLA Paper template.

Scrivener Scrivener for Windows
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I’m wanting to use Scrivener for my English Class and I can’t find the MLA template. Is there some place where I can download an equivalent template. I did a Google search and nothing turned up.

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If you can’t find the template in the New Projects dialogue (under non-fiction, I think) or in your project support folder (~/Library/Application Support/Scrivener/ProjectTemplates) then you should be able to retrieve it from the Scrivener app itself (IIRC).

In Finder, go to Applications > Scrivener and right click on it and choose ‘Show Package Contents’ and the drill down into Contents > Resources > Default Support Folder > ProjectTemplates and all the default templates should be there. Opt-drag (i.e. copy) the ones you want to say your downloads folder, then in the Scrivener new projects dialogue, click on Options > Import Templates and select those templates.

(This is for the Mac, obviously. Not sure how to do it on Windows, but the template should work on both.)

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I found it, I got a Mac Book Pro, but I need to convert it to the Windows version of Scrivener. How do I do that?

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As far as I know, the templates (and scrivener projects in general) exactly the same, as long as you’re using up to date versions on both platforms.

Just copy it over to the Windows machine and import it into Scrivener there – should work fine.

(I can’t test it now, but I’ve never had any problems working with projects on both platforms at the same time — I mean swapping them from one to the other and back, not ‘open on both’ at the same time)

The only caveat may be if you’re beta testing Version 3 on the Mac – I think that uses an updated file type and I don’t know how it interacts with V2.

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Thanks for the help. It’s just a simple essay using MLA format for works cited. I decided to create my own on the Windows version using the Mac as an example. Fairly easy to create the template. Nothing complicated.

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Templates are simple standard Project files which have been saved with various elements already configured, so you’re losing nothing by doing that.

If you want to use your version again, use File > Save As Template and it will then be available as a template (copy it to the Mac if you want… :wink:)

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Thanks.