I am giving up MSWord, for creative writing, and have been importing my various writings into Scrivener. My issue is converting from the monolithic Word file to Scrivener’s Folder and Document split into Scenes. It is not hard but it is time consuming.
Right now the process looks like this:
I add the Split Prefix text “[CHPT]” to the Chapter Titles. (This is easy with Find and Replace)
Using the “Import and Split” command, I split the file into chapters documents.
Go to each Document and Split the Title, off the Body.
Move the Body file, under the Title File
Convert the Title File to a Folder and delete the text within the folder, so it is only a folder.
Then I read and split the scenes off as I go with the Cmd-K. (This part works great)
Like I said Time consuming.
What would speed this up is an extension to the Split Command. If Shift-Cmd-K could do a Split to Subdocument from a Folder, then this would be as easy a splitting the scenes off with Cmd-K.
Or expand the “Import and Split” command to lets you set [Folder] as a folder, [SubDoc] as a Subdocument to that folder and [Split] as a Normal Split until it sees a [Folder] again at which point it makes a new folder. Though I could see using the Folder and SubDoc commands more then Split, while importing.
Thanks Bob