My wife and I are both using Scrivener 1.0.2 on Windows 7 64-bit Home Edition HP computers. I helped my wife import a long manuscript into Scrivener, but when she started editing the document, she couldn’t drag and drop selected text (e.g., a sentence) from one location to another. I’m working on some documents in Scrivener in which I can drag and drop text with no problem. However, I verified that it was not possible to do so on my wife’s computer.
For example, I would highlight a word by double clicking on it, then put the mouse cursor over it and click and hold the left mouse button. On my machine, the cursor becomes a vertical bar that you can then move with the mouse. Releasing the left mouse button causes the selected text to be placed to the right of the vertical bar. On my wife’s machine, I can double click to select a word and left-click-and-hold, but as soon as I start to move the mouse, instead of the pointer changing to a vertical bar it becomes a circle with a slash through it, as if I were dragging the text off the text-edit pane.
After some experimentation, I was able to get text drag-and-drop to work on my wife’s machine by starting a new project from scratch using the Blank template rather than the Fiction>Novel template. I created a test document using the Novel template and it exhibited the drag-and-drop problem, so it’s possible that the problem is specific to the Novel template.
Anyone have any ideas on what is going on here?
-John