Scroll to the phrase “British Library” and select it with the mouse so it is highlighted.
Press Cmd-E or use the Edit/Find/Use Selection for Find menu. This will load the selected phrase into the Find window (it doesn’t need to be open for this).
Press Cmd-UpArrow (don’t use the mouse for this) to scroll the cursor to the beginning of the current document.
Press Cmd-G or Edit/Find/Find Next.
Don’t do anything other than those steps, one after the other, and see if that works. If it doesn’t there is some kind of deep fault in find that I’ve never heard of before, but it’s at least a clue.
No, again, all it does is clear your interface settings. Content is not the shape of the window, or the options we use to display content.
Well by default they are shown on the Corkboard and Outliner, which are the two main areas one would be organising things. The Binder is left intentionally very clean and simple.
It would only remove the option to see labels as colours, perhaps you have them on icons or cards or something right now. The actual label assignment will not be touched. Resetting the project settings doesn’t touch any project data, just how you view it.
But, while you’re at it, see if you can try the above test now, before resetting it.
Also, have you updated to 2.6 yet? Nothing specific about this was fixed (we still don’t really know what is going on), but sometimes a fix to something else will unintentionally fix another.
Selected the most common name in the text, pressed Cmd-E, nothing happened except selection cleared; selected again and went to Edit>Find>Use-Selection-For-Find, pressed cmd-up-arrow, cursor went to top of document, pressed cmd-down-arrow, cursor went to bottom of document.
The Cmd-UpArrow was to bring your cursor to the top of the document, so that is fine, the point of doing that is to minimise the complexity of finding the search term (if the cursor is after the search term, it needs to wrap around, and that was reported as part of the problem). So once the cursor is at the top, press Cmd-G to find the next match. The important thing is to (a) get the actual text from the source document into the Find panel—that is what View/Find/Use Selection for Find is for, and then to try and find it. There should in theory be no way for that to fail unless something deeper (likely deeper than Scrivener) is broken. There is no need to press Cmd-DownArrow, that would mess up the test.
Though you can do that later if you want, put the cursor at the bottom and try Cmd-G again. It should still work, but we were specifically testing one thing with the cursor above the search term.
Ah, thought that wasn’t working because the Find window doesn’t appear at all, but it does skip me from one iteration of the name to the next, without showing that window.
If that works, then yes that would be a lot easier than resetting all of the project settings. I believe the main thing is the sequence Cmd-E + Cmd-Up + Cmd-G, so maybe just jot that down in your project notes or somewhere handy.
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Try hitting Cmd-8 on your keyboard
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The command-8 tip saved me. I didn’t have any word counts or targets showing on the footer. Now I do. The BBC Taped Drama template mysteriously omits them, and there’s no easy way in the toolbar to bring it back. I’ve been searching on the forum for 45 minutes with no luck until finding the way to display word counts anew. Thank you!
