Saved from Project Formats to My Format but not working on same project

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Okay so I figured out how to save my compile settings from my “Project Formats” so that it will show up in “My Formats”

Now here’s the kicker it doesn’t seem to matter. I still have to go in and rebuild the layout to make it work. Which I don’t get. I am in the same project and so everything is still set up just the same the only deference is that I saved a copy of it to the “My Formats.”

So my question is what do I need to do in order for the “My Formats” version to work on the same project that the “Project Formats” works on?

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At a guess, you need to reassign section types to section layouts, as that information is not carried in the compile format files. In effect, you are using a new format, so…

HTH :slight_smile:

Mark

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I thought that was what was being carried over. What’s the point in the saved compile formats if I have to rebuild it?

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A Project Format is saved within the project and is only available to that project. A My Formats format is available to any Scrivener project on your machine. So choosing My Format version is no different from choosing to use one of the formats that Lit&Lat provides; you would have to do the reassignment if you chose one of them. By the same token, on a different project, using My Formats you might wish to do the assignment differently from this particular project.

That said, I have to say that I always use a My Formats standard set-up and set the final layout details, fonts, sizes, line and paragraph spacing etc. in my word processor… I use RTF as a kind of markup, rather than as final layout.

To me, the only reason for using a Project Format is if that project is going to be shared with a collaborator, but even there, I don’t know if you can use a format created on Mac (I’m a Mac user) on Windows Scrivener.

Mark

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The Section Layout assignments are not part of the Compile Format. They’re the mechanism for tying the Compile Format to your actual text.

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Yeah, it all seems very confusing. I love the program for writing but the compile part is always a frustrating part. None of it really makes sense. I am glad to know that it is working as designed. I just can’t wrap my brain around why it was designed this way.

Is there a way to transfer section layout assignments from one project to the next? I would like to be able to not recreate the wheel each time I start a new project.

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I would have said that the project templates would cover this.

You can set up a project exactly how you want and have the template ready for each time you need it.

Does this not meet your needs?

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It’s possible to save Section Types as part of a project template. But the whole point of separating Layouts and Section Types is that you can use a variety of different formats without changing the underlying project.

I’m a bit confused, though. Could you explain what you’re trying to do in a bit more detail?Assigning Section Layouts shouldn’t be a particularly onerous task.