Pasting screenplay pages

[popcornflix]

If I copy a couple of pages of screenplay text in a Scrivener project, open a new screenwriting document and paste, none of the formatting is preserved. Is this expected behavior? Is copy/paste not supported for screenplay pages?

[anon56864026]

A possibility:
If you’re copying from a plain text formatted source, try pasting (into a scriptwriting doc.) using the command in the Edit menu > Paste Plain Text as Screenplay

Paste Plain Text as Screenplay When the active editor is showing a scriptwriting document, this menu command will become available. It can be used to paste plain text formatted screenplays, from the likes of Movie Magic Screenwriter, or even plain text screenplays you compiled from Scrivener in the past. The pasted text will be analysed and converted to the script format. It is only intended to work properly with standard Screenplay based formats.

Quote is from appendix A (A4) of the Scrivener manual.

[popcornflix]

Thanks for your suggestion, but it doesn’t apply to this situation.

I’m copying between two Scrivener documents in the same project. Both documents are in screenplay format. When I paste, all the screenplay formatting is lost.

I’m wondering if this is expected behavior, or if my copy of Scrivener is corrupted.

EDIT: Turns out my Scrivener installation was corrupted. Reinstalling fixed this.