Hi:
For some reason I have a problem with creating new chapters and moving them to the right place. Every time I drag and drop, the chapter winds up going into another chapter as a scene. I looked up the instructions and follow them carefully, but it just never works. I’ve tried duplicating folders and then moving them, with the same result. And for some reason, the control arrow combination doesn’t work either. I’m in a heavy edit stage on a manuscript and encountering this problem all the time. Tearing my hair out as I hoped to get this finished before NaNo – eek! Tomorrow.
Any help very much appreciated. I’ll take any workable solution.
Yup. I even tried dragging it way to the left to make sure it would slot in as a chapter and not as a scene, but no joy. I did find a workaround that’s time-consuming but gets the job done. I duplicate the last chapter I’ve edited. That gives me a duplicate chapter in the right place. Then I change the name on the duplicate chapter to the new name, add however many scenes I need, locate the old chapter and copy the text out of each of the scenes into the new scenes. And then delete the old chapter and scenes. With 80 some chapters, it’s not the workaround I’d prefer but it’s all I’ve got at the moment. Sure hope I don’t face this problem during NaNo.
I’m having this problem too. Chapters 1 and 2 are fine, but Chapter 3 persistently ends up as a sub-folder of Chapter 2 rather than a separate chapter folder in its own right. Any other suggestions how to prevent this?
If moving with mouse/touch pad is difficult, you can use the menu command Move. In the Mac version it is found under Documents in the menu bar. There you also see the keyboard shortcuts for the various Move commands.
I also find it very tricky to drag and drop with precision in the Windows version. Often I drag something, drop it, and find that it’s a sub-item of something else. Using Ctrl+LeftArrow moves it out to a higher level.
Thanks for the tip! I’m a Mac user, but I think I’ve sussed it anyway. I was trying to move the document by moving the line ABOVE it, but when I move the line BELOW it works fine.
