Hello, I am new to Scrivener and getting used to it. I’ve noticed that every time I close my project and open it again, Scrivener adds numbers to all my headings and subheadings and shifts my indentation. Anyone have any idea as to why this is? I’m sure it is probably quite simple but can’t seem to find any guidance. Thank you.
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Hi.
You should define where, exactly.
In the editor? Do you mean in a single document, like you’d have created somewhat of a toc, using a list?
In outline view?
Numbers as prefixes?
(The more you tell, the better.)
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You say “every time”, which implies that you fix it in-between. By doing what?
Hi, thanks for your reply.
Yes, the numbers are being added to my headings and subheadings in the editor, for all different files within my general document (forgive me if that’s not the correct terminology, hopefully I am making some sense). I have divided my monograph into several folders for each chapter, and each folder has multiple files for each subsection; every time I open the document the headings and subheadings throughout the document, irrespective of the folder or text section, have some number in front of them. To be precise, as I write this I have realised that it is only always the number “1”. It’s as if every heading and subheading were starting a new numbered list? I hope this makes sense.
I’ve been fixing it by simply deleting the numbers every time, which is obviously not very practical.
Thansks!
I am not on Mac. So the help I can provide is quite limited.
(Still no reply after 24 hours, so I’ll give it a shot.)
What my feeling is, as per your description, is that you use a style or styles for your headings and sub-headings, which headings you’ve typed yourself in the editor.
[If that’s not the case, disregard what follows.]
Somehow that style would have stored a list-like setting, and for some reason it refreshes the numbered list prefix on reload, even though you’ve deleted it – likely because that prefix isn’t treated like simple text.
If so far that makes sense,
→ [backup you project first] ←
have your cursor within the range of one of your headings that has that undesired number/prefix.
Go to Format / List and pick one of the bulleted list.
Did the number disappear, replaced with a bullet?
If so, that means that the number/prefix indeed came from a list formatting, and very likely that the said formatting was stored in your style.
Go to Format / List again, this time pick “none”.
Finally, select a region of that heading (which no longer has neither a number for prefix nor a bullet) and redefine the style.
Format / Style / Redefine Style from Selection → point to your style in the list.
All your headings should now be fine.
P.S. You don’t actually have to have the headings typed in the editor. Scrivener has a setting to use the documents’ title from the binder at compile.
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The Windows version doesn’t allow a list formatting to be stored as a style. So I can’t reproduce.
Should it be the same for Mac (which would rule out all of the above), the next thing I would recommend is that you go to Help / Search Menus, then type “auto” and see what comes up.
Same with “number”.
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Thanks so much, problem solved 
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