WORKING IN PAGE VIEW VS. DOCUMENT VIEW

Buenos dias,

I find that writing in the regular ‘Document View’ is very difficult because there are too many words per line and the overall page is too dense,

Is changing the page and font size then using ‘Page View’ the best way to deal with this or can I modify the Document View?

Gracias,
Richard Paris
richardparis.com

You can change your writing environment any way you want to suit your liking. Zoom in to get larger text, shrink the width using the ruler, increasing the line height, etc. When you have a setting you like, set this as the default in Preferences and then convert all your text to this format

Thanks - that does it.

Richard Paris
Author ONE SWEET RIDE
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The only thing I’d add to Lunk’s suggestions is that once you know the maximum text width you prefer, set your ruler back to maximum and use Scrivener->Appearance ->Main Editor->Options to control the maximum editor width and displayed margins. (It’s implied but not actually stated in Lunk’s directions, and I personally would find his directions rather confusing. Since you seem to be doing fine, my clarification is for anyone else who might read this and be as confused as I.)

That was what I meant by setting it as default in Preferences. :wink:
There is a button doing just this.

Thanks again.

As said, all seems good.

Must admit that since this is my first Scrivener canoe trip I am still apprehensive about what I will be facing with the publishing formatting and the usual last minute tweaking.