# No horizontal scrollbar, line too long?

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256>\
**Category:** Scrivener for Windows\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [April 25, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256 "2014-04-25T18:28:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Lobos](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8c91f0/32.png) [@Lobos](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Lobos)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256/1 "2014-04-25T18:28:50Z")

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Hey,

I pasted some text into scrivener and the lines are longer than the screen. there is no horiz. scrollbar. I cannot reach the text outside the screen. Can I somehow reformat the Text? Thank you!

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**Author:** ![MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/mimeticmouton/32/34_2.png) [@MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/MimeticMouton)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256/2 "2014-04-25T20:53:11Z")

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Easiest is Documents \> Convert \> Formatting to Default Text Style if it’s okay to reformat the whole document to match your defaults. If you need to limit it just to that pasted line, you could triple-click to select it, copy it, and then backspace a bit into the “good” formatting and then try using Edit \> Paste and Match Style, which will paste as plain-text. Or you could select some properly formatted text and use Format \> Font \> Copy Font and then Paste Font on the problem paragraph–that should work if the problem is that the line originally was set to keep lines together.

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**Author:** ![Lobos](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/8c91f0/32.png) [@Lobos](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Lobos)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256/3 "2014-04-25T21:23:30Z")

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That worked very well, thank you! Still, I think there should be a scrollbar if the line is longer than the screen. Maybe a bug?

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**Author:** ![MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/mimeticmouton/32/34_2.png) [@MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/MimeticMouton)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256/4 "2014-04-25T21:43:37Z")

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Yes, Scrivener doesn’t support the RTF \keep tag, so it ought to be stripped out when pasting or importing text that uses it; that’s on the bug list.

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**Author:** ![r6d2](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/r6d2/32/85_2.png) [@r6d2](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/r6d2)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256/5 "2014-04-25T23:07:31Z")

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> [@MimeticMouton](#):
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> that’s on the bug list.

On the “going to be fixed bug list” or the “plain bug list”? 😆😆😆

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**Author:** ![MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/mimeticmouton/32/34_2.png) [@MimeticMouton](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/MimeticMouton)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/no-horizontal-scrollbar-line-too-long/26256/6 "2014-04-25T23:09:30Z")

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I like to think they’re all going to be fixed eventually. 😉