Noob here! How can I select text by formatting across the whole project at once?

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Hello, writers! I am brand new to Scrivener. Just got it a few days ago. I’ve been digging through articles, video tutorials, forums, etc. and learned a lot, but there is one major thing that I still can’t figure out and haven’t found any help with anywhere.

I’d like to select text by formatting - in ALL documents, not just the one document I’m currently in. Specifically, I’m trying to select all text using the Heading 1 Style in the whole project, so I can easily edit the formatting of all my headings at once without having to go through each document.

I finally figured out how to select by Style under Edit > Find > Find by Formatting, but this only selects one instance at a time, not all.

I also finally figured out that I can go to the Show Styles Panel and right-click on any Style to select all instances of that Style, or I can go to Edit > Select > Select Similar Formatting to do the same. However, both of these options only select all instances in the ONE document/scrivening I’m currently editing, not all of them. Doesn’t work in Scrivenings view while viewing the whole project either. I also tried Shift-selecting all documents in the binder on the left, but it still will only select all instances in ONE document.

I see no option to select all instances across the whole project?? The equivalent command in MS Word is right-clicking on a Style in the top pane and choosing “Select All [number] Instance(s)”. Would love some help on this! It’ll be a pain to have to go through each document if I want to change the formatting of the headings in all of them…

Thanks a lot for any help!

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Hi Altarior :slight_smile: Welcome to the forum.

Indeed, you can’t actually have a selection across document’s boundaries under the windows version.
But in your specific case the good news is that you don’t have to!

Find one instance of a header using the Heading1 style.
Modify it to your taste, then with that header being selected in the editor :

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That will make all of your headers that have the style Heading1 assigned to them adapt automatically to that new formatting. (All of them, all across your project.)

The style’s settings panel will popup, but if you don’t have anything you want to change as regard to that style’s general settings, just click OK and you are done.

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Awesome, thank you so much!

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