I’m working from the Novel (with parts) template, and I’ve modified the Character Sketch template a bit. Maybe even created a new copy of that template sheet. Now, when I create a new Character Sketch, or visit the Character Sketch template sheet, the cursor is always at the Physical Description heading. If I go into the template sheet and move the cursor back up to the Character Name heading, it will stay there until I visit any other file, when it reverts back to Physical Description.
Using the Setting Sketch template sheet always brings me to the Name of Setting heading, but I haven’t edited that template sheet, other than to change the font.
Is there a way to set the cursor within the Character Sketch template sheet so creating a new Character Sketch always starts me in the Character Name heading? I looked around in the L&L forum but couldn’t find anything that seemed like a solution, but I could have missed it.
Once a document is created, it is no longer “connected” to the template. Changes to the template cursor position (or anything else) will not affect already existing documents.
A newly created document starts the cursor on that same line (Physical Description), but once I change the position in the new document, Scrivener remembers the position from that point on.
I guess what I’m trying to do is get it so that a new document starts up in the Character Name area, though it is a minor inconvenience, since it is easy enough to CMD+up to get to the top of the document. Just wish I didn’t have to
That’s possible. Put a placeholder in this spot, be it a space character or an ellipsis (…) and select it. Scrivener remembers the selection. Next time you create a document from this template, your starting position will be selected and you can just start typing over it.
That’s the weird part. Scrivener doesn’t appear to remember the selection. It keeps going back to that same part of the document, no matter where I move the cursor, or what text I select.
EDIT: I just tried duplicating the character sketch template, and the duplicate allowed me to do what I want (have the cursor default to the top of the template). So I just deleted the old template and renamed the duplicate. So a bit of a roundabout way to get there, but I got where I wanted to go.
