[v1] Setting Default Format for a Project

[AmberV]

Here is a post detailing how to set default formatting:

Default formatting in the editor and making indents even

Scrivener did some funny things with paragraph indents, adding additional tabs where the Word files have none. It’s not hard to go in and tweak that manually, but I wonder if there’s an easier way. There is a good tool for cleaning up the stuff you’ve imported. This knowledge base article has the details. In short though you can save reformatting for after you’ve got everything in, and then clean it all up at once. That won’t fix everything though, as there are some things that don’t fall wi…

Normally I would merge a query like this with that thread, but it seems you are describing something unusual. You do not see any options, you have nothing in the Format menu for this, and you have a Settings icon (this is a Project settings icon, maybe that’s what you mean)? Are you perhaps using a very old version of Scrivener? What do you see when you use the Help ▸ About Scrivener menu command?