Select all and undo

Scrivener Scrivener for Windows
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So I’ve looked online and searched the forum, but can’t find an answer.

  1. How do I select the entire Scrivener document?

  2. Also, if I screw something up, how do I undo it? I made a BIG change that I didn’t want. I decided I preferred my older version to this new monstrosity, so I exited the program without saving. When I reopened the program, the monstrosity was still there, with all the stupid mistakes.

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  1. How do I select the entire Scrivener document?

If you want to copy the entire document at once, it works a little differently from how you’d expect. Here’s the quickest way to do it:

  1. Open the Formatting dialog.
  2. Make sure all of the scenes are selected
  3. Choose “Preview” as the “Compile For” option.
  4. Compile it.
  5. In the Preview window, press Ctl-A to select all.

It would look like this:

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  1. Also, if I screw something up, how do I undo it? I made a BIG change that I didn’t want. I decided I preferred my older version to this new monstrosity, so I exited the program without saving. When I reopened the program, the monstrosity was still there, with all the stupid mistakes.

Right. Scriv isn’t like a word processor. It continually saves your document to disk.

Undo will undo many (but not all) changes.

Ideally, you should frequently back up. You can also set Scriv to automatically back up. I do it a lot:

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It may seem like a bad system, but it works okay.

Good luck!