I have a manuscript in Scrivener with folders for chapters and scenes within as text. My publisher wants me to export the file with no page breaks between chapters, but I can’t work out how to lose the page breaks at the Compile stage, and I can’t manually remove them from the word doc that results, they appear to be locked or hard-wired somehow. Thanks!
I’ve moved your post to Technical Support.
Page breaks are inserted as part of the Separators feature of the compile format you are using. There are a few ways you could go about doing what you want, but here is the route I would take, as it leaves the way you have things now available to return to easily in the future:
- First from the compile overview screen, locate the preview tile in the middle column that displays how chapter breaks are formatted. You should see a “Page Break” indicator along the top of the tile. Hover your mouse over the tile for a moment, and make a mental note of the Layout that is being used.
- Next, right-click on the compile format you are using in the left sidebar and edit (duplicating if necessary).
- In the Section Layouts pane, locate the layout being used for your chapter breaks, select it, and click the + button in the upper right. You don’t really need to change anything further here, just give it a name like “Chapter Heading (No Break)”. The actual setting is elsewhere.
- Click on the Separators pane, and select the Layout you just created from the left list.
- On the right side you’ll see the separator options for this particular layout. Disable the Use default separators option if necessary.
- Switch both Separator before (and between) sections to “Single Return”.
- That’s all you need to do from here, click Save.
- Now you need to set up your layout assignments to use the new Layout you created. Click the Assign Section Layouts… button below the preview area, select the section type used by your chapter folders on the left, and click your new preview tile.
It should have no “Page Break” indicator above it. Give that a test compile and see how it works. You might need to go in and tweak the formatting a bit to make it look nice, since the original was designed with a page break in mind rather than flowing from the previous paragraph. If so, that kind of change will be made in the Section Layouts pane. A good way of inserting some padding above the chapter break is to click into the line in the Formatting preview area and use the Format ▸ Paragraph ▸ Line and Paragraph Spacing… tool to add some “Before paragraph spacing”.
Unfortunately given how the preview works, you won’t actually see that spacing, but that’s what the Test… button is for in the lower left of the compile format designer. 
So now, if you want to go on using page breaks yourself for your own proofing copies you can easily swap between these two layouts—you could even make a duplicate Format, one for your editor and one for yourself. Each format stores its own layout assignment settings, so that would make switching between the two layouts a one-click thing. Of course if you do that, you have to remember to duplicate any adjustments you make to one format over to the other, so if you are actively designing the format, it might be easier to just swap Layout assignments as needed.
Finally, if you want to make that modified Format available to other projects in the future, back in the format designer interface, set the Save to location from “Project Formats” to “My Formats”.
Thank you! I got halfway there, so I can remove the page breaks. But then I had trouble as I would like a) chapter numbers and b) first line of each section not indented. I couldn’t work out how to make these changes in the Compile function.
If you search the forum you’ll come across a number of topics that address those questions. Here is a good one by brookter. Here is a thread that was just active a few days ago, with a bunch of cross-references to the documentation.
As you’ll note most of all that is done in the Section Layouts pane—as will be paragraph indenting, in the Settings tab.
Also check out our examples. The supplied compile Formats are mainly there to be examples and starting points for your own work. We have dozens of examples that exhibit different numbering and heading styles to work from. You can always “Edit & Duplicate”, and then use the Copy command on a layout you like, then return to your custom format and Paste those settings into a Section Layout to bring them over.
Thank you, AmberV, for these directions. I wanted scenes to run one after the other without the page break, and these instructions were extremely helpful. Who knew, fourteen years later, they would still work? LOL 
Fourteen years! I see you are correctly reckoning for 2020 time dilation. 
Glad to help.