I’m new to Scrivener, so forgive me if my question is elementary. I’ve written a novel in Word and thought this might be a good tool for revising.
On the Word document I’m copying from, the Tab stop is set to 0. I use an automatic first line indentation of .5", instead. However when I paste into Scriv, it randomly adds a tab to some lines (not all). So some paragraphs have the desired .5" indentation, and others have 1".
I’ve been fooling around with this for a couple hours, but I can’t seem to find a way to remove this random Tab Stop Scriv seems to be detecting without individually formatting thousands of lines. Any ideas?
I wonder if perhaps there are tabs in your original document, here and there, but with the 0" tab stop in Word they are effectively invisible. Scrivener might be deleting a 0" tab stop (which is kind of redundant) to clean up the formatting code, and thus assuming a default 0.5" tab stop for those lines that do have a tab character inserted before the paragraph.
You could inspect the paragraphs that are misbehaving this way, by turning on invisible characters in the Format/Options sub-menu. If you see a right-arrow at the front of the paragraph that stands for a literal tab character.
Those should be cleaned out anyway, so you might as well just do a search and replace in Word to clean it up, first.