# Standard novel format export and templates in beta 4

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**Created:** [November 12, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/standard-novel-format-export-and-templates-in-beta-4/630 "2006-11-12T20:24:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/standard-novel-format-export-and-templates-in-beta-4/630/1 "2006-11-12T20:24:06Z")

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Scrivener beta 4 (now available through the Beta Testing forum) has support for creating project templates, as well as for more easily formatting a manuscript from within Scrivener. I thought I had best post a couple of examples. 🙂

Beta 4 makes it very easy to format your text into standard manuscript format upon export. The only thing you have to do is create a title page at the top of your draft and make sure you have a few options turned on here and there. The best way of showing this is with an example project. The following project is set up so that it exports using standard novel formatting:

[literatureandlatte.com/downl … Format.zip](http://www.literatureandlatte.com/downloads/examples/NovelFormat.zip)

Also included in the .zip file is a PDF file which demonstrates the format. This PDF file was created right from within Scrivener - just by hitting “Print” inside the Export Draft sheet, going to Preview and saving the resulting PDF file. You could just as easily export it to RTF and open it up in Word, with headers, page numbers, title page and all. You can see from the .scriv project how easy it was to set up. Particularly cool, if I do say so myself, is the way that Scrivener can now convert italics to underlines upon export - so you can type the text in Scrivener as you would imagine will appear in print, but export it using the formal conventions.

Another very cool feature of beta 4 is templates. You can now very easily create a new project based on a project that you have set up the way you always want to begin new projects. To do this, you just set up a skeleton project with the binder structure, labels and status lists, keywords etc that you require, and then you use Save As Template… in the File menu. Templates (.scrtpl files) are saved in ~/Library/Application Support/Scrivener/Templates/.

Here is one to get you started:

[literatureandlatte.com/downl … Format.zip](http://www.literatureandlatte.com/downloads/examples/NovelSMFFormat.zip)

You will need to extract it into the folder mentioned above (note that you may need to create a “Scrivener/Templates” folder within Application Support if it doesn’t already exist).

Have fun!  
Keith

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