Printing Outline: how to have labels but not status, and the total words instead of word count 0 for folders?

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It’s all in the title, but I’ll explain:

I revamped the label into a “progress” (with color) and so the status is now obsolete. Alas the print option for Outline is a combo for the two, I can’t tick just the (former) label.
The workaround I need to do: manually blank all the status (I’ll try to find a way to clear them all in one go)

Also: there’s the option for the word number, but not the total for each folder (chapter, etc). I don’t really get why it was this number that got prioritized, and not the total. Allowing the two would make sense I think.

Do you have the same issue? Is there a good way? (workaround)

If I read well, when the printing setup is not enough for customization, it’s time to move to the compile process (of the outline). But it brings its own challenges too, I believe

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Compile, indeed.
(Or flush all your statuses, as you said - might work.)

It does, but nothing terrible. (Plus, there is always someone willing to help around here.)
And once you have your setup, next time you just reuse it.

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Not sure about your word count request though.

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Thanks for the encouragement! I learned the compile formatting by my own. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:
It wasn’t easy because the dark mode display of Scrivener is not great and some controls were almost hidden (thin medium grey arrows on medium grey background… :thinking:).

Now I have two remaining points to solve. (in another post).

Hopefully someone with the knowledge will answer :pleading_face: :sweat_smile:

I’ve been reading the reference documentation, and I’m close to my ‘alone limit’…

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Is this what you’re looking for? Hierarchy that is the sum of its underlying components?

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Exactly, I have this like you in the Outline columns, and I want to have it too in the output of the compile process for the Outline (like a printed or exported version, but the print options don’t have it).

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The options are there under Print Settings > Outlines tab.
Print to a PDF. Your data is not in columns but on sequential lines.
Suggestion: Run a Power Query in Excel to read in the PDF and transpose the listed common data into columns. Once the Power Query is built, it can be run again and again on an updated export. No, I haven’t tried it, but that’s how I understand Power Query demos I’ve seen.

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Or if you’re going to go that route, use File ▸ Export ▸ Outliner Contents as CSV..., and get straight to the good stuff in a spreadsheet program. When you export this way, there is an option to use only the visible columns instead of all of them, giving you control over that part. You could experiment with different count columns to see which works best.

For that, there is one Status and Label option that cannot be removed, which is the default for newly created items. You can actually change which is the default in the Project Settings, as well as remove the entries. There is no sense in having a bunch of empty rows. Just go in there, delete everything you are allowed to delete, and then rename the remaining default entry which you must have, to something. I suppose leaving it empty works, until you think of something to use it for. I usually set my default to “N/A”.

Deleting the old fields you don’t want will strip them out from any items that had been using them in the binder, reverting everything to the default selection (whatever that may be).

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