I am trying to import a .rtf generated by OpenOffice. The original story is 34,000 words.
When I drag and drop the file into the research folder, it creates a blank notecard, with the files title for the name. The document that goes with the notecard is greyed out and I cannot write in it.
I next tried using Import from the File menu, with the same result.
I also tried importing a much older rtf and was successful in that.
Cutting and pasting the text into a document worked.
I’m happy to send you the file that I’m trying to import but would rather not upload it here.
The drag and drop files function (from Explorer to Drafts) works only about 50% of the time with multiple files. When it fails, the Import dialogue box comes up, I click OK, but the files do not appear. After I checked the Do Not Notify Me Again box, it would not let me drag and drop even single files.
Now it is not allowing me to Import at all. No drag and drop, no File menu, no ADD existing files. Is there some limit to the number of items that can be in a file or project?
I also had difficulty importing a Word document saved in rtf by using the drag and drop feature. It created a blank document with the title of my document, but containing none of the text. The document contained text that was formatted as a heading. When I drag-and-drop imported a document that had no heading-formatted text, I had no problems.
I have a strange issue. After importing an rtf document I found no dashes in the text. The hyphen sign is there, but where Word had turned the hyphen into a long dash there’s nothing, only a double space. It was originally a .doc file that I saved as .rtf with Word 2003. I tried to do a test and check to see if an rtf file that was saved as rtf from the start would behave in the same way but nothing imports now, .doc, .rtf or .txt. Images still import though.
I’m importing an .rtf file that I saved from a .doc file in Word 2007. The document is approx 100 pages long. When I import it into Scrivener, there is “-280” after every break to a new line, be it a new paragraph, a page break or a break for “Part 1.” I did some experimenting. I have a document that has always been a .rtf file that converted with no problems. I also had a much shorter .doc file (2 pages) which I converted, same problem.
I’m running Windows Vista, Word 2007 from Microsoft Office Enterprise (the version with everything, not just four apps).
I recently had trouble importing an RTF file (generated from a docx file by Microsoft Word 12.2.4 Mac) into Scrivener 2.
The imported file had significant text differences compared to the original (as viewed in Word) and a greater word count. After a bit of detective work, I realised that Scrivener was also importing hidden text revisions within the RTF file and making them visible.
My workaround, if this is a Scrivener Bug, is to “Finalise” and accept any tracked changes in the Word doc before saving it as an RTF file. This eliminates the hidden changes and significantly smoothes the import into Scrivener 2.
