I’ve been asked to continue this ongoing series on how to use Scrivener, a powerful writing tool that is a must for many professional writers. Scrivener works for those writing poetry, fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, and…the list is long. It is a pre-production tool, a tool for the writing and development of your material for publishing. While Scrivener includes the ability to export the information as an ebook and material ready for publishing, it isn’t designed as a tool for publishing a pretty book. It is the workhorse that gets you to that point.

Scrivener is software installed on your Windows or Mac machine and is produced by Literature and Latte. The price is very reasonable and the purchased version of Scrivener maybe installed on your desktop and laptop without problems so you may work in both environments.

So far in this series we’ve covered:

• What is Scrivener?
• Scrivener: Bootcamp
• Scrivener: Free How to Use Book
• Scrivener: Organize Your Writing and Thinking
• Scrivener: Getting Started with a Project
• Scrivener: The Research Binder
• Scrivener: Split Screen Feature
• Scrivener: Organizing a Scrivener Project
• Scrivener: Import Documents and Files
• Scrivener: Names and Autocomplete
• NaNoWriMo: Beat Sheets and Story Engineering Worksheets
• NaNoWriMo Novel Template for Scrivener

In this part of the series, I’ll cover how to set the standard format for new documents, the process of fixing content that comes in a jumble in formatting, and how to set the default or standard format for new documents in Scrivener projects.

Setting the Standard Format for New Documents

Let’s begin with how to set the standard formatting for new documents in Scrivener, projects you are just starting. I’ll cover the process for Windows machines. It might be slightly different for Mac. (more…)