Turning off the auto-correct function?

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Greetings everyone:

I’m a newbie to Scrivener, but I’ve been trying to get up to speed quite quickly for a few projects I’m working on. I’ve searched the forums for an answer to this question so hope to find one here…

If possible, I would like to be able to do two things:

  1. Shut off the automatic initial-cap function after a full stop (ex: I was using the abbreviation h.s. and the next word began with an “E” instead of “e”).
  2. Select some text within the editor and make it a numbered list without turning all the paragraphs into a numbered list. Somehow I’d managed to do so at the beginning of the piece, but then wasn’t able to do so later.

Many thanks for any help.

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Hi, and welcome!

To adjust your auto-correction settings, go to Scrivener>Preferences:Auto-Correction. Uncheck the box for “Fix capitalization of sentences.”

For the list, you should be able to just select text in your editor, then choose Format>Lists and pick the style you want. The first new line added to the end of that section will continue to be in list format, but if you hit enter a couple times it should knock you out of it.

Hope that helps!
MM

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Excellent…didn’t even realize that the Preference section existed! Worked like a charm. Thanks!