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Quick Start Note: If you’re viewing the“Quick Start” collection in the binder,please dismiss it for now and return to thefull binder by clicking on the “X” in thebottom-right of the binder area.(Otherwise, this step of the tutorialdescribing the binder will not make muchsense!) To return to the “Quick Start”collection when you’ve finished this step,simply click on the “Quick Start” tab abovethe binder. (Ignore this if you did notchoose only to view the “Quick Start”collection when you started this tutorial.)

When you first open a Scrivener project,by default you are presented with two panes:

1. THE BINDEROn the left, you can see a list of files:the “binder”. This is an outline view thatcontains three default folders: “Draft”,“Research”, and “Trash”. You can renamethese folders to whatever you like bydouble-clicking on them (in some of thetemplates, for instance, the Draft folderhas been renamed to “Manuscript”). Thebinder is where you organise your project bycreating a structure and dragging anddropping your documents wherever you want.

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the text fragments that will be compiledinto one long document when you export orprint using File > Compile…, which is thestandard way of preparing your finishedproject for printing or final formatting ina dedicated word processor. This is verymuch the raison d’être of Scrivener—toassemble the text of your manuscript in theDraft folder for printing or export. (Assuch, the Draft folder is unique in that itcan only hold text files and folders.)

The Research folder can hold text or mediafiles (images, PDF files, video files and soon). You don’t have to put all researchfiles into the Research folder, though—youcan create other folders for your supportmaterials anywhere you want.

The Trash folder speaks for itself;whenever you “delete” a document it ends uphere. Documents aren’t deleted completelyuntil you select “Empty Trash…” from theProject menu—so there’s no way you canaccidentally delete a file in Scrivener.

2. THE EDITORNext to the binder you have the main editor,which displays the current document. Themain editor is what you are looking at rightnow as you read this text document. Thereare several ways to load a document in theeditor, but the one you will use most oftenis simply selecting a file in the binder, as

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is simply selecting a file in the binder, as

you did to load this one. Scrivener allowsyou to create or import any number of textdocuments. You can also import image, web,movie and PDF documents. To importdocuments, use File > Import > Files… orsimply drag the files you wish to importfrom File Explorer into the binder of yourScrivener project.

You can change the current document byclicking on another item in the binder. Trythat now—double-click a word in thissentence to select it (you’ll see why in amoment), then click on “Alhambra” inside the“Research” folder (you may need to expandthe Research folder first by clicking on thetriangle—or [+] sign in Windows XP—next toit) and then return here (“Step 1:Beginnings”).

See how the selection that you createdbefore is saved and scrolled toautomatically? Scrivener always remembersyour cursor position and selection, evenbetween sessions. Use this way of“bookmarking your spot” to your advantage asyou progress through the tutorial.

So now you know that this area can be usedto view different types of documents, notjust text.

Let’s try switching between documentsagain. You see the document on the left

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again. You see the document on the left

beneath this one, the one entitled “Step 2:Header View”? Click on it now. (Or, if youare going through the “Quick Start”collection only, click on “Step 5: TheInspector”.)

You have just switched between documents.You might use different documents fordifferent chapters, different scenes,different ideas, articles, characters,whatever you want. There are other ways ofswitching between documents, too. Anotherone you will use frequently is the headerview. See that bar at the top of the text,the one that has the arrows on the left ofit and says “Step 2: Header View” in it?Well, that is the header view (which issometimes also referred to as the “headerbar”). You can rename the document byclicking into the title of the header view,and there are several options available in amenu if you click on the icon next to thetitle.

History Buttons Sidebar Navigation

The arrows on the left of the header viewthat point left and right are the historynavigation buttons and work much like webbrowser navigation arrows—they allow youstep back and forth through the documents

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step back and forth through the documents

you have had open in the editor. The whiteup and down arrows on the right of theheader bar step through the contents of thebinder sidebar sequentially. To see thedifference, try the following:1. Click on the “Alhambra” image document in

the Research folder again and then clickon the left arrow in the header view. Youwill be returned to this document,because this was the one you had openlast.

2. Click on the right arrow and you will bereturned to the “Alhambra” image documentagain. (Make sure you come back hereafterwards though!) You can use Ctrl+[and Ctrl+] to navigate within history,too.

3. Now, with this document open, click onthe down arrow on the right and thenclick on the up arrow again to returnhere. Note how the down arrow takes youto the next document in the binder,whereas the right arrow takes you to thenext document in the navigation history.If you prefer the keyboard, you can useAlt+Shift+DownArrow and UpArrow to do thesame.

4. If you click on the little icon next tothe title of this document in the headerbar, you’ll find some handy commands youcan use. One of these is a “Go To” menu.

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can use. One of these is a “Go To” menu.

This presents the contents of your binderin a hierarchal menu arrangement. You canthus easily jump anywhere in the Binder,even if it is hidden.While we’re here, note that the selection

highlight in the binder does not necessarilyfollow what is being displayed in the maineditor—if you change the contents of theeditor using the history buttons, forinstance, the selection in the binder willnot change. You can thus navigate aroundusing the header view without losing trackof the original document on which you wereworking in the binder.

Try using the “Go To” menu in the headerbar icon menu to find and navigate to “Step3: Footer View”. You’ll need to first selectthe Draft sub-menu, and then “Part 1:Basics”…

If you ever find that after navigatingthrough multiple documents you are not surewhere the current document is located in thebinder, you can simply use View > Reveal inBinder (Ctrl+Shift+8) to force the binder toshow you where you are. Right now, since youused a menu to get here, the Binder isn’thighlighting what you are looking at. Tryusing the shortcut or menu command to focus

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using the shortcut or menu command to focus

the binder selection on Step 3. This isespecially useful if the item you arelooking to locate is buried beneath manysub-folders and not even visible.

Okay, so let’s get familiar with theeditor. At the bottom of the window, you cansee a grey bar containing a pop-up buttonwith a percentage in it (135% by default)and a live word and character count. This isthe “footer view”. Try typing something inthe yellow area below:

Done that? You will see that the word andcharacter count in the footer view changesas you type. Now try changing the percentagein the drop-down menu at the bottom, too(click on it and select a new percentage)—you will see that you can make the textbigger or smaller (useful for tired eyes).Feel free to set that to a comfortable levelfor the remainder of this tutorial.

Scriptwriting ModeThe footer view will change depending onwhat you are viewing inside the document.For instance, if you are typing a script(such as a movie screenplay), the footerview will give you information on the

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view will give you information on the

various script elements. Try selectingFormat > Scriptwriting > Script Mode -Screenplay from the main menu now. You willsee another pop-up menu appear on the rightsaying “General Text” (this just means thatthe currently selected text isn’t recognisedas a part of a screenplay). Click into thetext on the line below:

CLICK INTO THIS TEXT.

Now try selecting different elements fromthe pop-up menu on the right of the footerview. You will see that the above textautomatically gets reformatted to the scriptelement you selected, and the footer viewwill show what will happen if you press thetab or enter keys (which will move you tothe next script element). Note that you canhit Ctrl+\ to bring up that menuautomatically and then hit one of the keysspecified in the menu to select an elementwithout taking your hands off the keyboard.

Scriptwriting mode is saved on a document-by-document basis, so you can switch betweendocuments that use script formatting andregular text documents. The icons ofdocuments in the binder that usescriptwriting mode are yellow and have a 3-hole punch along the left side, so that youcan easily tell them apart from other textdocuments.

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Right, let’s return to normal prose modenow. Select Format > Scriptwriting > ScriptMode - Screenplay (Ctrl+4) again to de-select screenplay mode.

Other FilesFor PDF files, the footer view allows you tonavigate between the pages. Click on“spacewalk_info” in the Research folder totest this out, and then come back here byclicking on the “back” arrow in the headerview.

All good so far, I hope. Now let’sfamiliarise ourselves with some other basicfeatures. Click on “Step 4: Full Screen” inthe binder.

Full screen is a very nice feature forblocking everything else out while youwrite. I’m not going to pretend it’sinnovative or anything—I think Blue-Tec (nowcalled The Soulmen), the creators of Ulyssesfor Mac, were the first to implementsomething like this for a text editor—but itis very handy. Either hit F11 or click on“Full Screen” in the toolbar above—do itnow!

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You should now be in full screen mode—it’sjust you and your text. Some things you needto know about full screen mode:● Move your mouse to the bottom of the

screen. You will see that a control panelappears. From here you can change thetext scale, set the position and width ofthe “paper” (the text column), or itsheight by holding down the Alt key andusing the alternate slider, and view theword and character counts of thedocument. There are also buttons fordisplaying the Keywords and Inspector (wewon’t go into that right now, though, aswe have yet to talk about keywords andnotes—come back and try them out onceyou’ve gone through the rest of thetutorial) and a Go To menu so you canswitch documents without leaving fullscreen. On the far right, you’ll find aslider for setting how transparent thebackground is on either side of the paperas well as a button for exiting fullscreen. You can also hit F11 or the

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screen. You can also hit F11 or the

Escape key to exit full screen mode.● You can only enter full screen mode for

text documents.● By default, full screen uses “typewriter”

scrolling (another Ulysses first, Ibelieve). This simply means that as youtype, the text will remain in the centreof the screen vertically so that youdon’t have to stare at the bottom of thescreen all the time. You can toggle thison and off via the keyboard shortcut,Ctrl+G,Ctrl+T (which means you wouldpress Ctrl+G and then quickly follow withthe T key). If you’d rather never use it,you can set its default state to off inTools > Options…, under the Editor tab.This will only impact projects you createin the future, it will need to beswitched off in existing projects, aseach can have their own setting.

● You can customise the look of full screenmode. You can use the Appearance pane ofthe Options to change the backgroundcolours and you can change the colour ofthe text in full screen mode (so youcould set it up to have a retro green-text-on-black-background look, forinstance).Okay, let’s move on to “Step 5: The

Inspector” while still in full screen mode.Once there, hit the Escape key on your

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Once there, hit the Escape key on your

keyboard to return to the regular editor.To switch documents in full screen mode,

move the mouse pointer to the bottom of thescreen and click and hold the “Go To” iconso that the menu appears. Then, choose Draft> Part 1: Basics > Step 5: The Inspector.

Now it’s time to meet the Inspector.

Click on “Inspector” in the toolbar (theblue disk on the right, with the “i” insideit; or press Ctrl+Shift+I). A third panewill appear on the right of this view.

You may find this text a little scrunchedup now. If so, click on the “Maximize”button at the very top-right of the window(the middle icon that appears in mostwindows on your computer).

Right, let’s look at the inspector. At thetop of the inspector, in the header bar, youwill see these buttons:

The “References” button, second from the left, has anasterisk indicating content.

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The padlock button on the far right allowsyou to “lock” the inspector to a particulareditor when the editor is split—we won’tworry about that for now, though, as wehaven’t looked at splitting the editor yet.The other buttons allow you to choose whatto view in the inspector. The number ofbuttons that appear will depend on what youare viewing in the current editor (the lasttwo buttons, “Snapshots” and “Comments &Footnotes” are only available for textdocuments, for instance). An asterisk nextto one of the icons tells you that there iscontent in that part of the inspector.

To begin with, make sure the leftmostinspector button, “Notes”, is selected, andthen click on the next document in thebinder, “5a: The Synopsis Index Card”.

The first thing to notice in the inspectoris the index card at the top. This appearsin the Notes, References and Keywords panesof the inspector (but not in the Snapshotsor Comments panes, which require morespace). The index card is an importantconcept in Scrivener. You can type asynopsis of your document into the body ofthe index card (note the header of the indexcard can be used to rename the document,too). One of the core ideas behind Scriveneris that every document (or chunk of text, or

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is that every document (or chunk of text, or

image, or whatever) is associated with asynopsis, which is represented in theinspector by the index card. You can thenview these synopses in different ways (whichwe will come to later) which will makeoutlining and organising your work easier.The best way to understand this is toimagine that each document in Scrivener is asheet of paper that has an index cardclipped to it containing a summary of thedocument’s contents, which can then beviewed alongside other index cards to get anoverview of the whole.

You can auto-generate a synopsis byclicking on the button in the top-right ofthe inspector: if any text is selected inthe editor, it will be copied into thesynopsis; if no text is selected, the firstfew lines of text will be used.

You can also display an image in this areaif you want. To do so, just click on theicon of the index card with two arrows nextto it in the header at the top of theinspector and choose the image icon. Thesynopsis will be replaced by a blank areacontaining the text, “Drag in an image.” Youcan then drag image files from the binder orfrom File Explorer into this area. (If animage is selected for a document in thesynopsis area of the inspector, it will alsobe used to represent the document on the

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be used to represent the document on the

corkboard instead of the synopsis text—wewill come to the corkboard a little later.)

So that’s the index card. Below the indexcard are other tools to help you organiseyour work, starting with the General pane.Note that the Synopsis and General panes canbe collapsed by clicking on the disclosuretriangle in their respective header bars.

Please click on “5b: General Meta-Data”.(Or, if you’re going only through the “QuickStart” documents, click on “Step 6: End ofPart One”.)

The “General” pane in the middle of theinspector contains several meta-dataelements:

Label and StatusLabel and status are just arbitrary tags youcan assign to your document. You can set upthe project labels and status list viaProject > Meta-Data Settings… You might, forinstance, rename “Label” to “POV” (for Pointof View) and use it to hold the name of thepoint-of-view character for each document.This way, you could easily run a search onall scenes that have a particular characteras the protagonist by searching on labelonly (don’t worry, we’ll get into thedetails of how to do that later). Statusworks much the same, except that it is set

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works much the same, except that it is setup to keep track of the state of thedocument by default—for instance,“Finished”, “To do”, “A mess” and so forth—although you can rename it and use it forsomething completely different, should youso wish. If you change the titles for thesemeta-data types, the General Meta-Datasection will show your custom title insteadof the default “Label” and “Status”.

Created/Modified DateSwitch between the created and modified dateby clicking on the arrows next to where itsays “Created:” or “Modified:”. No surpriseshere—as you would expect, the created dateholds the date and time the document wasfirst created and the modified date holdsthe date and time the document was lastmodified and saved.

Include in Compile, Page Break Beforeand Compile As-IsThese options affect how the document iscompiled when you come to export or printthe draft (which we will come to later).They only have any meaning if the documentis contained inside the Draft folder. Theyare mostly self-explanatory:● Include in Compile specifies whether the

document should be included in or omittedfrom the draft when exported or printed,

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● Page Break Before specifies whether thedocument should have a page break beforeit (useful if it marks the beginning of achapter, for instance).

● Compile As-Is tells the compilationprocess not to change the formatting orinsert a title for this particulardocument, no matter what the Compilesettings are.You can view all meta-data in columns in

the outliner view, too (which is covered inPart 10).

Next, let’s look at the “Notes” pane—clickon “5c: Notes” in the binder.

At the bottom of the inspector is the notesarea, where you can jot down anything youwant that will help you with your document.If you click in the notes header bar (whereit says “Document Notes”), you can flipbetween Document Notes and Project Notes. Asyou would imagine, document notes arespecific to each document and will changedepending on the document you are viewing inthe current editor, whereas project notescan be viewed from any document (projectnotes can also be seen in the inspector whenyou select one of the special root folders—Draft, Research and Trash—which have noassociated meta-data or synopses).

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You can have multiple project notesassociated with your project (new projectnotes can be added using the Project Noteswindow, available from the Project menu).

Please click on “5d: References” in thebinder.

Click on the next button in the inspectorheader bar, the one with the picture ofseveral book spines on it. This switches tothe “References” pane (the index card andmeta-data area will remain where they are,only the notes will disappear to be replacedby a list of references). The referencespane allows you to store references to otherdocuments within the project, your computeror on the Internet.

Click where indicated to (1) add a new reference or(2) remove the selected reference.

By clicking on the “+” button, you canchoose to add a reference to a file on diskor you can select a document inside theproject. You can also drag documents fromwithin the project you are working in, fromFile Explorer, or the URL from a browser

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File Explorer, or the URL from a browseraddress field, into the references table.

Double-clicking on the icon of a referencewill open it: external references open intheir default application; internalreferences open inside Scrivener. Double-clicking the reference title will let youedit the title and path. As with notes, youcan store references at the document orproject level—click on the bar where it says“Document References” to flip betweenDocument References (which are specific tothe current document) and Project References(which can be viewed from any document).

Next click on the key-shaped button at thetop of the inspector to view the keywordspane and then move on to “5e: Keywords”.

As well as Label and Status, you can alsoassign keywords to your documents. Keywordsare useful for adding arbitrary tags todocuments that you can use when searching.So, for instance, you could add keywords forcharacters that appear in a scene, thelocation a scene takes place, the theme,authors referenced, or anything else (or youcan just ignore keywords completely). Youcan add keywords by clicking on the “+”button. You can also assign keywords via theProject Keywords dialogue. Open that now byclicking on the “Keywords” button in the

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clicking on the “Keywords” button in the

toolbar (the black box with the key insideit) or Ctrl+Shift+O.

A floating window (that means you can keepit open while you work, and it will always“float” on top of the other windows) willappear. This shows all of the keywords thatyou have created or assigned to documents sofar. You can also create or modify keywordsinside this window (you can change thecolour associated with a keyword by double-clicking on the colour chip in the ProjectKeywords window) and drag them to thekeywords table in the Inspector. Another wayof assigning keywords is by dragging themonto documents in the binder or the outlinerand corkboard views that we will look atlater. You can assign keywords to multipledocuments at once by selecting the documentsin the binder and then dragging the keywordsfrom the Keywords dialogue onto theselection

Try dragging the keyword entitled “Assignthis one” to the keywords table in theinspector.

You can assign multiple keywords at once.To see this in action, click on the trianglenext to “Characters” in the floating

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next to “Characters” in the floating

Keywords dialogue to reveal the names ofsome characters. Hold down the Ctrl key toselect multiple keywords, then drag all ofthe selected keywords into the inspectorkeyword table. Note how all the selectedkeywords are added.

A quick way of searching for documentsthat have been assigned particular keywordsis to select the keywords you want to searchfor in the Project Keywords dialogue andthen click on the “Search” button at thebottom. Try that now, with the “Themes”keyword. The binder list to the left will bereplaced by a search result list. Only thisone document should be listed. To leave thesearch result list, click the “X” button inthe lower right-hand corner of the bindersidebar. We’ll learn more about searchinglater.

You can close the Project Keywords windownow, either toggling it with the toolbarbutton, Ctrl+Shift+O or clicking the “X”button in the corner of the window.

Now click on “5f: Custom Meta-Data” in thebinder.

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If you click on the button at the top of theinspector with the icon of a tag on it, youwill by default be presented with a blankgrey area with the message “No Meta-DataFields Defined” and a button with the title“Define Meta-Data Fields…”. This area can bepopulated with custom meta-data that youcreate for your project, and the data thatcan be viewed here can also be viewed ascustom columns in the outliner. Thisprovides a way of assigning arbitraryinformation to your documents. For instance,if writing fiction, you could add a meta-data field for the time at which a scenetakes place, or you could add a list ofcharacters that appear.

We first need to define some custom meta-data fields, though. Let’s do that now:1. Click on the “Define Meta-Data Fields…”

button (alternatively, you can choose“Edit Custom Meta-Data Settings…” fromthe menu that appears when you click onthe gear button in the “Custom Meta-Data” bar, or select “Meta-DataSettings…” from the Project menu andthen choose the “Custom Meta-Data” tab).

2. Click on the “+” button in the bottom-left of the sheet that you’ve opened,and enter “Date” into the row that getsadded to the table.

3. Click on the “+” button again and this

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3. Click on the “+” button again and this

time enter “Characters”. For this one,also click on the “Wrap Text” checkbox.

4. Click “OK” to accept the changes anddismiss the sheet.

The Custom Meta-Data pane in the inspectorwill now show the two fields you createdabove. Click into the field under “Date” andtype something, then do the same for“Characters”. Note that the “Characters”field will expand to fit the text, becauseyou selected “Wrap Text”.

You can view all custom meta-data incolumns in the outliner view, too (which iscovered in Step 10).

For many projects you may not need totouch custom meta-data at all, but if youever find yourself wishing for an extrapiece of information in the outliner orinspector, then it’s good to know that it’sthere.

Next, on to one of Scrivener’s most usefulfeatures for editing documents: “Snapshots”.

As a writer, the chances are that you willon occasion be nervous about committingchanges to your text. This is what the“Snapshots” feature is for. Before embarkingon editing a document, you can click on“Take Snapshot” (Ctrl+5) in the Documents >Snapshots menu. You will hear the sound of a

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Snapshots menu. You will hear the sound of a

camera shutter which indicates that thesnapshot has been taken. Let’s try that now…

Once you have taken a snapshot, you canedit your document safe in the knowledgethat you can return to the old version anytime you so wish. Click on the “Snapshots”button (the one with the picture of a cameraon it) in the inspector header bar to seewhat I mean (you can also switch directly tothe Snapshots pane and have the inspectoropen if necessary by going to Documents >Snapshots > Show Snapshots). The inspectornow shows a list of snapshots at the top,which should consist of the one you took andone I took while writing the first versionof this tutorial back in 2006. Clicking on asnapshot in the list reveals its text in thelower part of the inspector. You can restorean older version of your text by selectingthe version you want from the list and thenclicking on “Roll Back” at the top (at whichpoint, you will be given the option oftaking another snapshot of your currentversion, just in case you forgot).

Snapshots are very useful for keeping oldversions of your text around and forchecking what you have changed.

Now let’s move on to Step 5h forinformation on the comments and footnotespane.

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Now we’ll look at the “Comments & Footnotes”pane—don’t worry about clicking on thebutton in the inspector header bar just yetthough (for your reference, the “Comments &Footnotes” button is the one with the “n.”inside a square speech bubble).

Comments and footnotes in Scrivener work alittle like comments in Word or OpenOffice,but they’re not exactly the same. Let’s takea look at them.

For a start, click on the orangehighlighted text in the sentence below:

This sentence has a commentattached[ Comments get displayed and selected as soon as

they are clicked on in the main editor.]

[Comments come in a variety of colours, try right-clicking on thiscomment.].

Note how the inspector automaticallyswitches to the Comments & Footnotes pane,and the comment associated with the textgets selected.

Next, click on the grey footnote in theinspector, directly below the highlightedcomment.

This sentence has a footnoteattached.1

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See how clicking on the note in theinspector automatically selects the textassociated with it in the main editor?

If you click on a note in the inspector,the editor will automatically scroll to theposition in the text where the note has beenplaced. This allows you to use the commentsand footnotes to navigate the text, whichmeans you can use them for personalplaceholders, too. Try scrolling to thebottom of this document, and then clickingthe orange comment to return to the spotwhere it is anchored.

Adding Comments And FootnotesLet’s try adding some comments andfootnotes. There are a couple of ways ofdoing this. First, select some of the textin the following sentence:

Select some of the text in thissentence.

Once you’ve selected a word or two in theabove sentence, either click on the “+”button in the top “Comments & Footnotes” barin the inspector or use the Format > Commentmenu command. A new comment will be createdin the inspector and it will be selectedready for editing—add some text. Once you’ve

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ready for editing—add some text. Once you’ve

finished typing in the comment, tap the Esckey to return to the editor.

Alternatively, you can just click into orafter a word to add a comment or footnote toit. This time, just click into the word“commented” below so that the blinkinginsertion point (or caret) is somewhereinside it:

This sentence will be commented.

Again, create a comment using yourpreferred method. Note how the whole word“commented” gets a comment associated withit.

Let’s try it with a footnote too. Placethe cursor anywhere in the last word of thefollowing sentence:

This sentence will have a footnoteafter it when exported or printed.

This time, click on the “+fn” button inthe inspector (note that you can add iconsfor “Footnote” and “Comment” to the FormatBar by using Tools > Customize Toolbar…).

Note how the footnote gets attached to theword “printed”, including the full stop. Itgenerally doesn’t matter where you attachcomments, because they are usually for yourown (or collaborators’) reference only, but

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own (or collaborators’) reference only, butwith footnotes you should always ensure thatthe footnote link (the grey highlight) endsat exactly the place you want the footnotenumber to appear when printed or exported.Since the footnote highlight ends rightafter the full stop, that means the footnotenumber will be inserted there, which isusually what you will want.

Excluding Punctuation from FootnotesIn some languages, footnote markers areplaced before the final period of thesentence rather than after it. If youwrite in such a language, you can turnon “Terminate footnotes and commentsbefore punctuation” in the “Editor”panel of Tools > Options.

Changing The Colour Of CommentsYou can change the colour of comments byright-clicking on a comment in theinspector. The contextual menu offers achoice of default colours, or you can openthe colour chooser to choose a custom colourwith “More…”. You cannot change the colourof footnotes, which use a single colour todifferentiate them from comments, althoughyou can choose the background colour for allfootnotes in the “Appearance” panel ofOptions.

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The contextual menu also allows you toconvert comments to footnotes and viceversa, and to revert comments or footnotesto their default formatting (you can set thedefault fonts in the “Appearance” Optionspanel).

Comments and footnotes are thus tuckedaway in the inspector until you need them.When you come to export or print—which we’llcome to later—you have a lot of control overhow comments and footnotes get included inthe document. For instance, you could haveall comments removed but footnotes includedas proper footnotes, or you could havecomments exported as footnotes and footnotesexported as endnotes. But if that soundscomplicated, it’s not something you need toworry about right now—just know that if youwant to make notes on your document, or addfootnotes, this is one way to do it.

Now let’s move onto “Step 6: End of PartOne”!

This brings us to the end of Part 1 of thetutorial. In the next section you will learnabout different ways of viewing andorganising the documents in your Scrivenerproject.

Folders (not just folders, but we’ll cometo that shortly) can be viewed in several

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to that shortly) can be viewed in several

ways, what we call “view modes”, but for nowall you need to know is that when you clickon “Part 2”, you will initially see acorkboard, but in fact what you want to seeis the text of the folder document. Thiswill make more sense in a minute!

So after you click on “Part 2:Organisation”, take a look at the “GroupMode” segmented control in the toolbar andensure that all view modes are turned off.The control should look like this (note hownothing is selected):

If one of the segments is yellow, justclick on the selected segment to turn itoff. This will leave you with just the textof “Part 2” in the editor, ready to read.

Go ahead and try that now.

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1 This is a footnote. In order for footnotes to get exported properly, it’simportant to add them in such a way that the link ends exactly a youwant the footnote to appear in the exported or printed text.