Quick notes on the Windows tutorial

[ChrisBaty]

Hi Keith and Company! I just went through the Windows tutorial and now feel ready to embrace my Scrivener destiny. I noticed a few things during the tutorial that I wanted to share in case they’re helpful in future versions.

Keep up the great work!

Chris

So, without further ado, click on “Step 1: Beginnings” in the list on the left to begin.

In my version, “Step 1: Beginnings” is a hidden (unexpanded) subfolder of Part 1: Basics, so it took me a while to find it.

Right, let’s look at the inspector. At the bottom of the inspector, in the footer bar, you will see these buttons:

In my version, these buttons are at the top of the inspector in a header bar. (This comes up a few times in the tutorial.)

Go to View > Corkboard Options > Show Pins. The result will depend on the look you have chosen for the label indicator in the corkboard Options.

In my version, I didn’t see a Show Pins option. There was, however, a “label pins” option that seemed to do the trick.

[MimeticMouton]

Thanks for the notes, Chris! Was this a fresh install of 1.9 or did you have an earlier version of the program that you updated? The inspector tabs were only moved to the top in 1.9 and I believe this was addressed in the 1.9 tutorial, but older versions would have said bottom. I know there was an issue with the tutorial project not coming out right for some users when updating from an earlier version, so I’m wondering if that might be a factor here.

I want to make a bad date-with-destiny joke here, but I’ve a head cold and nothing witty’s coming. I hope you enjoy using Scriv!